{"id":206935,"date":"2025-02-21T12:09:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:09:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/mercor-an-artificial-intelligence-recruiting-startup-founded-by-21-year-olds-raises-100-million-at-2-billion-valuation"},"modified":"2025-02-21T12:09:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T18:09:52","slug":"mercor-an-artificial-intelligence-recruiting-startup-founded-by-21-year-olds-raises-100-million-at-2-billion-valuation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/mercor-an-artificial-intelligence-recruiting-startup-founded-by-21-year-olds-raises-100-million-at-2-billion-valuation","title":{"rendered":"Mercor, An Artificial Intelligence Recruiting Startup Founded By 21-Year-Olds, Raises $100 Million At $2 Billion Valuation"},"content":{"rendered":"

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In today\u2019s AI news, Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion \u2014 eight times its previous valuation. Existing investors Benchmark and General Catalyst, as well as DST Global and Menlo Ventures participated.<\/p>\n

In other advancements, GPT-4.5 could arrive as soon as next week, as Microsoft gets ready to host OpenAI\u2019s latest artificial intelligence models.<\/p>\n

Microsoft engineers are currently readying server capacity for OpenAI\u2019s upcoming GPT-4.5 and GPT-5 models. While OpenAI CEO Sam Altman acknowledged recently that GPT-4.5 will launch within a matter of weeks.<\/p>\n

Then, OpenAI\u2019s astounding growth rate potential is luring possible investors as questions loom over whether the startup will go public. \u201cIn terms of a multiple to pay for stock like ours, there\u2019s incredible interest at the moment,\u201d finance chief Sarah Friar told CNBC\u2019s David Faber on Thursday. Its future growth potential has also enabled OpenAI to \u201cachieve valuations that are on par with the growth rate of the scale\u201d it is reaching.<\/p>\n

S internal testing, it could mark a meaningful step forward for an all-purpose multimodal AI that can operate interactively in both real and digital spaces. + In videos, Figure is introducing Helix, a generalist Vision-Language-Action (VLA) model that unifies perception, language understanding, and learned control to overcome multiple longstanding challenges in robotics. A detailed report on Helix can be found in text accompanying the video.<\/p>\n

Then, in this episode of Moonshots Peter Diamandis is joined by a panel of leaders in the session Transforming Business with AI: Opportunity or Overload? at Miami FII. Panelists include: Prem Akkaraju, CEO, Stability AI Ramin Hasani, Co-Founder & CEO, Liquid AI Jack Hidary, CEO, SandboxAQ Jim Keller, CEO, Tenstorrent Alexander Sukharevsky, Senior Partner & Managing Partner, QuantumBlack, AI, McKinsey & Company.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, AI is evolving into a mysterious new form of intelligence \u2014 powerful yet flawed, capable of remarkable feats but still far from human-like reasoning and efficiency. To truly understand it and unlock its potential, we need a new science of intelligence that combines neuroscience, AI and physics, says neuroscientist and Stanford professor Surya Ganguli.<\/p>\n

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In today\u2019s AI news, Mercor, the AI recruiting startup founded by three 21-year-old Thiel Fellows, has raised $100 million in a Series B round, the company confirmed to TechCrunch. Menlo Park-based Felicis led the round, valuing Mercor at $2 billion \u2014 eight times its previous valuation. Existing investors Benchmark and General Catalyst, as well as [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":724,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43,45,47,2020,1617,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-finance","category-neuroscience","category-peter-diamandis","category-quantum-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/724"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=206935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206935\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=206935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=206935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}