alt Hacker NewsWhy are all three companies relying on the same vendor?
If we’re putting our national security eggs all in one basket, at least use someone American.
Why are all three companies relying on the same vendor?
If we’re putting our national security eggs all in one basket, at least use someone American.
There’s a whole cottage industry of vendors that have provided post training data, private evals, and professional datasets to most (if not all) of the frontier labs. The overlap between OpenAI and Anthropic includes at least Mercor, Surge AI, AfterQuery, Turing, Scale AI, Upwork (for recruiting labelers), Apollo Research, etc.