Sid Potdar

@_viroot_ Profits are a sign of low ambition

@sidharth_potdar “The majority of cash flows are 10-15 years away”

One thing about fast-growing companies is that historical revenue can look ridiculously small relative to current run rates This occasionally lets people who treat “that seems unlikely” as analysis feel vindicated Rather unfortunate - we really could use intelligent skepticism

Today, we're releasing our first version of the AI Consumer Index (ACE). ACE tests what people actually ask, and expect, AI to do for them in their personal life. From shopping for a gift to tackling home projects, people are turning to AI for recommendations and step-by-step guidance. ACE contains realistic and challenging evals, split across shopping, food, gaming, and DIY. The results show that models routinely fail on consumer tasks: - @OpenAI GPT 5 is the top model but scores only 56.1% overall. - No model scores over 50% on Shopping tasks, an opportunity worth $5+ trillion globally. - Frontier models frequently hallucinate web content they were supposed to retrieve, getting numbers or a link wrong between 29% to 62% of the time.

@_WEEXIAO @Osmosis_AI Congrats Kasey!

We've raised $7M to help companies build AI agents that actually learn and work. @Osmosis_AI is a platform for companies to fine-tune models that outperform foundation models with reinforcement learning. Better, faster, and cheaper.

Excited to share Mercor’s first benchmark! The team is already hard at work expanding the richness of this eval for the next iteration and including even more valuable job categories such as peptide dealer and chief of staff. See the full paper here: arxiv.org/abs/2509.25721

@BrendanFoody Maybe we should all be using Grok 4 more, it does surprisingly well on these real world workflows

@BrendanFoody @mercor_ai 🦍

Mercor (@mercor_ai) scaled from $1-500M in revenue run rate in the last 17 months, making us the fastest growing company of all time. Our growth is accelerating. We averaged 11% week over week growth in July, 18% WoW growth in August, and 19% WoW growth in September. One trend driving this meteoric growth: the Economy is Becoming an RL Environment Machine. Reinforcement learning is becoming so effective that agents can hillclimb any benchmark, but humans need to define the rewards to automate everything. While everyone fears job loss, we’re creating a new category of knowledge work faster than any other time in history. The future of work will converge on training agents. We're paying out over $1M / day to people in our marketplace and hiring experts rapidly across nearly every domain: software engineers, doctors, lawyers, consultants, bankers, and many more.

Just heard I’m getting sued by Scale. Last month, I left Scale to work at Mercor. I know this was frustrating for my old team, and I feel bad about that. When Scale reached out about some files I had in my personal drive, I asked if I could just delete them. But Scale asked that I not do anything with them, so I’m still waiting for guidance on how to resolve this. I’ve never used any of them in this role. It sounds like Scale wants to sue me and that’s up to them. But I just wanted to say that there truly was no nefarious intent here. I’m really sorry to my new team at Mercor for having to deal with this.

The meteoric rise of @mercor_ai becomes clear once you meet the founders. I’m excited to announce that I’ve joined their board and will be working closely with them alongside Sundeep Jain, who brings exceptional marketplace expertise. They’ve quickly established themselves as the go-to provider for top AI companies, delivering unmatched speed and quality

@SushanthRaman excited for copallet

Since our Series B in May, we’ve been busy: - CoPallet is smarter than ever with Deep Reasoning 🧠 It’s the only AI that learns rules, checks its own work, and improves over time. - We’re going mainstream: Our first commercial is hitting TVs across the country. - Featured on great shows including @FWwhatthetruck WHAT THE TRUCK?!?, @freightcaviar, @FreightWaves, and @tbpn - Signed 3 new customers in a single day, the first of many hat tricks 🎩

At Mercor, we connect PhDs and researchers with high-paying, high-impact work training shaping the future of frontier AI models. This year, we expanded that mission with the Mercor Graduate Fellowship, awarding $50K to students doing extraordinary work. We’re excited to introduce one of our 2025 fellows: Neil Band. Neil is a third-year Stanford CS PhD student researching how to make language models safer and more reliable. His work tackles hallucinations, uncertainty calibration, and advanced reasoning in LLMs. With the support of this fellowship, Neil can focus on pushing the boundaries of trustworthy AI, taking on more ambitious, forward-looking research. We're proud to support Neil as he builds the future of trustworthy AI.

Mercor (@mercor_ai) is now working with 6 out of the Magnificent 7, all of the top 5 AI labs, and most of the top application layer companies. One trend is common across every customer: we are entering The Era of Evals. RL is becoming so effective that models will be able to saturate any evaluation. This means that the primary barrier to applying agents to the entire economy is building evals for everything. This will be one of the largest buildouts we have ever seen with enterprises pouring hundreds of billions of dollars into evals for every workflow we want agents to automate. We're quickly defining a new class of work and hiring across nearly every domain: software engineers, consultants, bankers, lawyer, doctors, gamers, and many more.

Mercor connects experts in their field with leading AI labs to test, challenge, and improve frontier AI models. Whether you’re a software engineer, PhD, consultant, or doctor, you can earn up to $200/hr while working on your own terms. Apply today at work.mercor.com.

THE MERCOR GRADUATE FELLOWSHIP Today, we're announcing the Mercor Graduate Fellowship, which awards $50,000 to support graduate students who are on track to do exceptional work, even if they haven’t done it yet. Every transformative idea starts with someone on their way—before the breakthroughs or the recognition. Mercor works with thousands of PhDs and postdocs across fields—from math to philosophy. We see firsthand that academia is full of people whose talents are wildly under-funded and under-valued. We’d like to change that—beginning with this fellowship. MERITOCRACY We want to identify exceptional talent regardless of academic pedigree, institutional affiliation, or personal connections. Traditional fellowship programs rely heavily on recommendation letters, publication records, and prestigious affiliations—metrics that frequently favor those with established networks and privileged backgrounds. All we want to evaluate is to understand (i) what problems you are trying to solve and (ii) how you want to solve them. This allows us to discover brilliant talent who might be overlooked by conventional selection processes—whether you're from a top-ranked university or a less-known institution, whether you have impressive publications or are still developing your research. The Mercor Graduate Fellowship is designed to support talented individuals who demonstrate exceptional promise but may lack resources or recognition. We want to increase access to opportunity and funding in academia. THE FELLOWSHIP - $50,000, no strings attached. - Open to current PhD students and postdocs in STEM fields. - To apply, just upload a resume and take a 10-minute virtual interview with Mercor’s AI - Apply by May 15th (but we review applications as they come in) THE NETWORK We’ll host a retreat for selected fellows to connect with other people building cool things and thinking deep thoughts. THE BONUS Searching for talent is hard—refer someone who wins, and we’ll pay you $10,000.

thank you to everyone who attended our inaugural women in tech night!

When we started the company at 19, we had grand ambitions, but I never imagined how fast it would happen. I'm incredibly grateful for the team we've built and everything they've accomplished. Labor allocation is the most important problem in the world and we're only cracking the surface.

It’s been a great first year creating jobs at @mercor_ai. A lot more to go!