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Chief people officers—and Jamie Dimon—say AI can’t learn ‘human skills.’ The world's youngest self-made billionaires want to prove them wrong

What's the price of training an AI to take your job someday (soon)? Mercor has contract gig listings as high as $150 per hour.

The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hasn’t taken a day off in 3 years and can’t stop thinking about work—here’s how he keeps from burnout

The world’s youngest self-made billionaire hasn’t taken a day off in 3 years and can’t stop thinking about work—here’s how he keeps from burnout

“People generally burn out, not just from working hard, but from working hard on something that they don't feel as fulfilling and compounding,” he said.

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Calls It 'A New Category Of Work' As His $10 Billion Company Pays Humans Over $1.5 Million A Day To Train AI

Mercor CEO Brendan Foody Calls It 'A New Category Of Work' As His $10 Billion Company Pays Humans Over $1.5 Million A Day To Train AI

Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million a day to people training artificial intelligence systems.

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Meet the world’s youngest self-made billionaire, who skipped finals to make an empire out of teaching AI 'what only humans know'

At 22, Brendan Foody and his high-school debate team friends turned a hackathon side project into one of the fastest-scaling startups of the AI era.

Move Over Zuckerberg: Three 22-Year-Olds Just Became The Youngest Self-Made Billionaires In History — Thanks To An AI Hiring Startup

Three 22-year-old high school friends are now the world's youngest self-made billionaires, according to Forbes. Their San Francisco-based artificial intelligence hiring startup, Mercor, recently raised $350 million in funding led by Felicis Ventures, valuing the company at $10 billion.

Mercor CEO Says Company Pays $1.5 Million Daily To Humans Teaching AI — Inside Tech's Wild New Gold Rush Minting Billionaires Overnight

As artificial intelligence reshapes global industries, Mercor is paying more than $1.5 million each day to human contractors teaching machines how to think — signaling a new frontier where people profit by training their AI replacements.

Harvard Dropouts Behind Mercor Target $10 Billion Valuation As Startup Supplying OpenAI, Tesla And Nvidia Hits $450 Million Run Rate

Mercor, a startup connecting domain experts to technology giants like OpenAI, Meta (NASDAQ:META), and Tesla (NASDAQ:TSLA), is in discussions with investors for a Series C round that could value the company at more than $10 billion, according to TechCrunch.

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Peter Thiel-Backed Fellows' Startup Mercor Targets $10 Billion Valuation As OpenAI, Meta, Tesla Turn To Its AI Training Experts: Report

Peter Thiel-Backed Fellows' Startup Mercor Targets $10 Billion Valuation As OpenAI, Meta, Tesla Turn To Its AI Training Experts: Report

Mercor, founded by three Thiel Fellows who dropped out of Harvard, is reportedly pursuing a Series C funding round targeting a $10 billion valuation amid surging demand from artificial intelligence companies for specialized training experts.

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

These Gen Z and millennial founders dropped out of college, took $200,000 from Peter Thiel, and have now built companies worth over $100 billion

The Thiel fellowship awards $200,000 to young people who skip or leave college to spend two years building a startup, with notable alumni including Figma CEO Dylan Field and Scale AI cofounder Lucy Guo.

Exclusive: Felicis has raised $900 million tenth fund

Exclusive: Felicis has raised $900 million tenth fund

Felicis has raised its tenth fund at $900 million, the firm’s largest to date, Fortune can exclusively report.

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