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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.

Benzinga · Sep 17, 2025

San Francisco Probes Scale AI Over Labor Practices After $14 Billion Meta Deal, Raising Questions On Gig Worker Rights In AI Boom: Report

San Francisco is investigating Scale AI's labor practices just months after Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) bought nearly half of the artificial intelligence startup in a $14 billion deal, casting new attention on how tech's fastest-growing firms treat the workers powering their models.

Benzinga · Sep 11, 2025

Lucy Guo, Billionaire Behind Scale AI, Launches Passes For Celebs Like Olivia Dunne And Bella Thorne To Transform Creator Economy

Lucy Guo, the 30-year-old billionaire who co-founded Scale AI with Alexandr Wang, is now focusing her energy on a new business in the crowded creator subscription market.

Benzinga · Sep 10, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg Bets Billions On 'Startup Mode' As Meta's Superintelligence Unit Lures Alexandr Wang And Nat Friedman From Top AI Firms

Meta (NASDAQ:META) is reorganizing its artificial intelligence division around compact, high-impact teams as CEO Mark Zuckerberg pushes the company deeper into what he calls "superintelligence labs," Business Insider reported.

Benzinga · Sep 2, 2025

Mark Zuckerberg’s millions can’t buy loyalty — AI experts are choosing safety and society over Meta’s money

Meta is seemingly having a hard time keeping its relatively new employees despite multimillion-dollar offers, with several members jumping ship less than a month after joining.

Windows Central · Sep 1, 2025

Meta–Scale AI Partnership Sees Signs Of Strain As Key Executive Departs In Just Two Months, Researchers Pick Rivals: Report

The partnership between Meta Platforms Inc. (NASDAQ:META) and Scale AI is reportedly showing signs of strain, with a key executive leaving Meta just two months after the partnership was formed.

Benzinga · Sep 1, 2025

How the World’s 5 Youngest Billionaires Built — or Inherited — Their Empires

Here's how the world's youngest billionaires made their fortunes.

GOBankingRates · Aug 18, 2025

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.

Fortune · Aug 16, 2025

Why did Meta invest in Scale AI – and how will it change the AI models you use?

What's next for AI training and evaluation after the Scale/Meta deal.

TechRadar · Aug 6, 2025

Behind the Meta Scale AI deal: why more data Isn’t always better for physical AI

The backlash to Meta’s $14.3B Scale AI deal reveals a bigger story in the AI world: quality, trust, and precision trump raw volume in Physical AI.

TechRadar · Aug 6, 2025