AI training startup Mercor is reportedly in talks to raise a round at a valuation of $20 billion, according to sources tell bloomberg. This will be significantly higher than its last value in October, when it made a rise $350 million Series C at a valuation of $10 billion. The outlet reported that negotiations for…
google on thursday Issued The latest version of Gemini Pro, its powerful LLM. The model, 3.1, is currently available as a preview and will be released generally soon, the company said. Google’s new model could be one of the most powerful LLMs ever. Onlookers have noted that the Gemini 3.1 Pro appears to be a…
Last month, I wrote about Mercor’s new benchmark Measuring the capabilities of AI agents on professional tasks such as law and corporate analysis. At the time, the scores were quite disappointing, with every major lab scoring below 25%, so we concluded that lawyers were safe from AI displacement, at least for now. But AI capabilities…
