# Nvidia in Talks to Fund AI Data Supplier Mercor at $20B Valuation

By Ray Termsheet · 2026-08-25 · Deals & Funding · https://datacommenter.com/nvidia-in-talks-to-fund-ai-data-supplier-mercor-at-20b-valuation/
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> General Catalyst is leading a new round that would double Mercor's valuation to $20 billion just ten months after its $10 billion October raise, The Information reported August 19, 2026,…

Original reporting: [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-discusses-funding-ai-data-supplier-mercor-20-billion-valuation)
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Nvidia isn’t just buying data from Mercor anymore — it’s discussing buying a piece of the company, and that shift from customer to owner is the real story. Mercor’s valuation would double to $20 billion from its $10 billion October mark, according to The Information’s August 19, 2026 report, with existing backer General Catalyst leading the round and Nvidia’s own contribution size still unknown.

> A $20 billion mark on a company still logging class-action suits over a contractor data breach isn’t a valuation — it’s a bet on Nvidia’s checkbook.

The mechanics here matter for the whole data-labeling market. Mercor’s annualized gross revenue hit $2 billion in June, doubling from earlier this year, and Nvidia alone paid it tens of millions of dollars last quarter for expert-curated legal, financial and scientific data feeding its open-source Nemotron models — with a dedicated Mercor team now working almost exclusively on Nvidia’s account. That’s the same vertical-integration playbook Nvidia ran on Scale AI, which it backed at a $14 billion valuation in 2024, and it puts pressure on rivals like Turing and Surge AI to either land their own chip-industry sugar daddy or get squeezed on margin.

The tension for Mercor is that its biggest closed-source clients — OpenAI, Google, Anthropic — are Nemotron’s direct competitors, and taking Nvidia money makes Mercor’s neutrality a harder sell even as its revenue keeps compounding. Watch whether the round closes at $20 billion or gets marked down amid the ongoing breach litigation, and whether Scale AI or Turing answer with financing news of their own.

> At Mercor, our vast talent network trains frontier AI models in the same way teachers train students: by sharing knowledge, experience and context that can't be captured in code alone. Each project expands what models understand.
> — [The Information](https://www.theinformation.com/articles/nvidia-discusses-funding-ai-data-supplier-mercor-20-billion-valuation)

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