
semi◦diffusion focuses on the business side of AI and expert work—how platforms operate, where demand is moving, and what that means for people like us.
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Inside Mercor’s expert-data economy: what harder AI evaluations cost, who bears the risk, and where a defensible business could emerge.
At first, all 100 people could find the AI agent’s mistakes. Six months later, only 20 could still stum...
An AI platform can win a new contract while one of its experts loses their task queue. How can both happen?
This 90-second video explores a tension at the heart of AI training: experts are hired to close gaps in a system, but doing that wo...
Mercor and micro1 are building businesses around human expertise. The harder question is which kinds of expertise AI labs will keep paying for.
Introducing clawded.ai
semi◦diffusion: an AI tale of two cities is where I write about the business side of AI: how platforms operate, where demand is moving, and what that means for people building, working, and earning in this market....
Mercor sits between professionals seeking AI training work and clients buying expert judgment. The challenge is determining whether someone’s experience will translate into reliable work. Drawing on firsthand experience from both sides of t...
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