US data brokers selling $500M in RL training environments to Chinese AI labs
The Decoder · rss · 2026-11-11
A ChinaTalk investigation finds US data brokers like Mercor, Surge AI and AfterQuery are selling roughly $500M worth of AI training data to Chinese labs — including the same RL environments previously built for OpenAI or Anthropic. At least nine firms are involved, and export controls barely apply to this business.
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