… Nvidia released the first Nemotron model in November 2023. He adds that Nvidia recently finished pretraining a 550-billion-parameter model. Pretraining involves feeding huge quantities of data into a model spread across vast numbers of specialized chips running in parallel. …
Mercor is one of a few firms that OpenAI, Anthropic, and other AI labs rely on to generate training data for their models. …
… When OpenAI finished training o3 in early 2025—a model optimized for coding even more than o1—it finally had the foundation to build a real AI coding product. But Claude Code was already poised to launch publicly. OpenAI was scrambling to stand up a competing product. …
… Anything you share in a chat with Meta AI may be stored and used to train future AI models. “We keep training data for as long as we need it on a case-by-case basis to ensure an AI model is operating appropriately, safely, and efficiently,” reads Meta’s privacy policy about generative AI. …
… That's still the case here, even with the transition to Google Health, and the company says there's an opt-in if you want your data used for research and development and model training. …
… Employees also have been frustrated by being “drafted” onto a new AI team without any choice and the rollout of surveillance software that tracks US workers’ laptop use to train AI models. …
… Despite Anthropic’s efforts to control who can use Mythos Preview, a group of Discord users gained access to the tool through some straightforward relatively detective work: They examined data from a recent breach of Mercor, an AI training startup that works with developers, and “made an educated g… …
… The models were improving during 2025 “by leaps and bounds,” Whitworth told me. “All the serious people are using the AI, because they go straight to the hardest thing, which is target development.” Many of those serious people were commanders, the ones who would run deadly operations rather than o… …
… In the world of AI, an interview is standard fare for everyone. This has prompted some people to suspect—despite companies’ assurances to the contrary—that the interview process itself is a means of harvesting data, a form of free AI training. …
… You can only use some of the new running training features, like Step Speed Loss and Running Economy, if you wear the Forerunner 970 together with the Garmin HRM 600 chest strap $170 . …