Dylan Pourkay

evals @mercor

[Brendan (can/do) @BrendanFoody]

We raised our $750 million Series D at a $20 billion valuation from @benchmark, @generalcatalyst, @nvidia, @salesforce, and @zoom.

@mercor scaled from $1M to $3B in run-rate revenue in 27 months, the fastest in history to $3B.

For 2 years, we've organized human intelligence to build evals and training data for every frontier lab.

The labs are the leading indicator for AI startups, then the Fortune 500.

Our growth has accelerated over the past 6 months as enterprises start evaluating and training their own models. For many, owning their intelligence is existential.

[Dylan Pourkay @DylanPourkay]

Flight deplaned after engine failure, replacement flight is 4 hours later.

It’s all cool tho they sent me a $15 meal voucher.

[Dylan Pourkay @DylanPourkay]

Concert etiquette is so dead

[Lessons @onlypreneurs]

In a weird way, everybody is rooting for you. When you go to a job interview, the interviewer wants you to be amazing so they don’t have to look anymore. when you go on a date, the person wants to have an amazing date with you. If you make a piece of content, people want to see amazing pieces of content and they have no problem if it’s yours.

the instant you get into the mindset that people want you to do well, your entire world gets better. And you’ll be shocked to know this pattern keeps repeating in different areas of life.

[Bethesda @bethesda]

Embark on your next journey to Tamriel in The Elder Scrolls VI: Sentinel.

[nader dabit @dabit3]

Tech is insanely interesting because it's one of the only careers in the world where anyone from anywhere can catapult to the highest ranks of success and income purely based on what they can do and regardless of their background or education.

It's evolved so many times, each with its own windows of opportunity. Today is more interesting than ever, the first time in the history of software that the technical barriers to accomplishing "technical things" have been seemingly removed, leveling the field for anyone curious or determined enough to take advantage of this exact moment in time. People with technical expertise of course still have the leg up if they can encompass the excitement, curiosity, humility to see and understand the state of the world as it actually exists and act on it.

Every evolution there exists the doomer and the optimist on each side, making their argument about the current "thing" or state of the world, it's always so interesting to watch. The best piece of advice is the same thing echoed by all of the successful people I know: be the optimist not the doomer.

[🍓🍓🍓 @iruletheworldmo]

happy fable 5.5 week everyone.

i’ll see you real soon.

[Dylan Pourkay @DylanPourkay]

Directionally the greatest thing to ever happen

[New York Post @nypost]

NYC Council bans horse carriages in veto-proof vote that will end 150-year-old Central Park tradition https://t.co/kPKqiI2CK3

[Nifast🍀Greentail @NGreentail]

doomscrolling habit so bad playing videogames feels productive

[killian @hellokillian]

Are you kidding me?

The official Xbox response to mega-viral game remixing is "This is good for players. It challenges our business model, so what. We'll start a lab."

Asha should run MS. Never seen anyone this tapped in

[Dylan Pourkay @DylanPourkay]

Rateflation is so painful.

Every single restaurant that is semi-decent is not a 4.x.

Every AirBnB is not a fucking 5.

A 2.8 on Yelp is sometimes a 5 on UberEats

Do people know how to rate?

[Crunchyroll @Crunchyroll]

The quietest kid in school hits the hardest 🥊

The Boxer is coming soon to Crunchyroll #NYCC

[miluvin444 @miluvin444]

Life fucking loves you. Things work out for you. Doors open for you. Money comes to you. Love finds you. People remember you. Opportunities want you. You keep getting lucky in ways that make you laugh because of course it worked out for you again.

Of course it did. It always does. It always has.

[Torti @tortiitart]

Rakan shield

[Eno Reyes @EnoReyes]

When I'm forced to order Nick the Greek because Souvla is closed

[Mercor @mercor]

APEX turns 1 today.

Last year, we launched the AI Productivity Index (APEX) to answer whether frontier AI models can do professional work. Since then, we’ve created new benchmarks while model capabilities progress more rapidly than even the boldest predictions.

APEX remains the industry standard for evaluating frontier AI on economically valuable work.

Here’s how APEX has evolved over the past year.

𝗢𝗰𝘁 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟱: 𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫
Mercor introduces APEX, our first AI benchmark for testing investment banking, law, consulting, and medicine.

𝗝𝗮𝗻 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫-𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
Built with partners @box and @harvey, APEX-Agents evaluates AI agents on long-horizon tasks in investment banking, consulting, and corporate law.

𝗠𝗮𝗿 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫-𝗦𝗪𝗘
Co-developed with @cognition, APEX-SWE assesses real production engineering across integration and observability.

𝗝𝘂𝗹 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫-𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴
Built with @tryramp and @RampLabs, APEX-Accounting measures whether models can close the books.

𝗦𝗲𝗽 𝟮𝟬𝟮𝟲: 𝗔𝗣𝗘𝗫-𝗔𝗴𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀 𝟭.𝟭
Our first major update to APEX-Agents includes newly audited tasks, an improved judge, and enhancements to ensure leaderboard accuracy.

Thank you to all our partners who built these benchmarks with us. And, to the Mercor experts, professional bankers, lawyers, consultants, doctors, engineers, and accountants, whose judgement and expertise ensure these benchmarks are realistic.

The rate of AI progress is only increasing. Mercor is committed to maintaining and extending our APEX family of benchmarks as the industry standard for informing decisions about the AI frontier and its ability to do professional work.

See full leaderboards: https://t.co/JU07IwL0fQ

[Dylan Pourkay @DylanPourkay]

@ryanjdaniels This is beautiful.

[Uncle Benzo (Reborn) @SobrietyField]

My biggest tell in poker is hitting the six seven when being dealt a six / seven

[six @internetphysics]

Type of gif that makes you reevaluate your entire life from first principles

[Hanekawa’s Hero @HanekawasHero]

@XavierDsage A fish doesn’t know land. Doesn’t make grass niche