Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic (The Information)

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Mercor’s revenue surged to $614M in H1 2026, showing foundation labs’ heavy spending on AI training data operations.

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<a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercors-fast-growth-relies-biggest-ai-companies-documents-show"><img align="RIGHT" border="0" hspace="4" src="http://www.techmeme.com/260721/i22.jpg" vspace="4" /></a> <p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260721/p22#a260721p22" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> <a href="https://www.theinformation.com/">The Information</a>:<br /> <span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.theinformation.com/articles/mercors-fast-growth-relies-biggest-ai-companies-documents-show">Docs: AI data startup Mercor had $614M in gross revenue in H1 2026, up 70% from all of 2025, with ~91% from foundation model makers like OpenAI and Anthropic</a></b></span>&nbsp; &mdash;&nbsp; Mercor, a three-year-old data startup whose army of contractors teaches AI to give better answers, is growing fast but relies heavily &hellip; </p>