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Sepal AI (acquired by Mercor)

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What they do

Data research shop that built RL environments, hard reasoning benchmarks and expert-run data projects, especially in the sciences; now part of Mercor.

Offerings
RL environmentsEvals & benchmarksHuman data
Task domains
ScienceMulti-domain
Data sources
Expert-made
Funding & status

Acquired by Mercor (Feb 2026, terms undisclosed).

Sources (2)
  1. orrick.com · Acquisition announcement (vendor site offline since acquisition)
  2. linkedin.com · Mercor announcement
Last checked

2026-10-16

Funding status

Public / acquired

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