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Brendan Foody, co-founder of Mercor, describes his company’s approach of linking skilled professionals with enterprise AI projects to train models for professional-level reasoning. He says Mercor was built around the concept of “agentic data” — data generated by humans performing real professional tasks and evaluations — and argues this is the next step in AI training and benchmarking.
In conversation with Adjunct Lecturer Emily Ma, Foody discusses how agentic data shapes Mercor’s product and business strategy, forecasts the effects of AI on work and the economy, and offers practical advice for entrepreneurs seeking entry points into the AI market.
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