Mercor, Tacit Labs, Handshake AI...
I suspect companies like these play a big part in model improvements, generating high quality benchmark/task-focused data for training.
However, these do require educated, white collar, workers.
Considering that frontier scientists and engineers in the US are currently taking home seven (or even eight, in some cases) figure salaries - pretty high, I'd reckon.
How much advantage in costs? What % of labor is training cost?
Mercor, Tacit Labs, Handshake AI... I suspect companies like these play a big part in model improvements, generating high quality benchmark/task-focused data for training.
However, these do require educated, white collar, workers.
Considering that frontier scientists and engineers in the US are currently taking home seven (or even eight, in some cases) figure salaries - pretty high, I'd reckon.