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.
FundingReported
Year-old AI lab Flapping Airplanes raises $1B at a $6B valuation
Context: Nine months after a $180M seed, the year-old lab raised a $1B Series A; The Next Web, citing Bloomberg, says Index Ventures and Lux Capital led. It is building AI models "without ingesting half the internet" and has no product yet.
From TechCrunch: Just 9 months after raising a $180 million seed round, Flapping Airplanes has landed a $1 billion Series A for its mission to build AI models "without ingesting half the internet."
Flapping Airplanes · Series A · $1BAs stated by TechCrunch.
- Source
- TechCrunch (techcrunch.com)
- Published
- First seen here
- Edition
- Thursday, October 22, 2026, ranked 2
- Status
- A publication reported this; the company may not have confirmed it.
- Why it’s here
- One of the largest Series A rounds reported this year; covered by three outlets.
- Topics
- AI, Venture capital
