Funding
Mercor raises $750M at $20B valuation to take AI agent evaluation to enterprises (opens siliconangle.com)
Mercor supplies human experts to train and evaluate AI models, drawing on a network of more than 5 million domain experts.
NewsReported
China’s Largest Startup Deal Ever Lifts Global Venture Funding To $59B In October
Context: Crunchbase counts $59 billion of global venture funding in October, up 45% from a year earlier, largely because of DeepSeek's record $15.9 billion round.
From Crunchbase News: Global venture funding in October totaled $59 billion, a 45% jump from a year earlier, per Crunchbase data, in large part due to a record-setting $15.9 billion funding round for China’s DeepSeek.
- Source
- Crunchbase News (news.crunchbase.com)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Tuesday, November 3, 2026, ranked 22
- Status
- A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
- Topics
- Venture capital, AI
