origin Mercor cofounder, two others become youngest self
Published on: Dec. 2, 2025, 6 a.m. | Source: The Economic Times
AI startup Mercor achieved a $10 billion valuation, with its 22-year-old co-founders becoming the world's youngest self-made billionaires. The company experienced hypergrowth after Meta's investment in Scale AI created a demand for alternative data annotation services. Mercor now employs 30,000 experts to train and test AI models, generating significant revenue.
