Mercor AI Hack, Chinese Model Development
The AI training company Mercor reportedly suffered a massive hack, resulting in the release of proprietary data and expert training methods. There are concerns that Chinese entities will utilize this data to create compressed, highly efficient AI models. Meanwhile, individual users are increasingly running AI models locally on hardware like Raspberry Pis to avoid commercial subscriptions like 11 Labs.
mercor· ai training· open source· 11 labs· raspberry pi· china
1:17:11 pieces of what they're doing that were not broken out. He says there's a battle within the company, it puts some of this stuff open source anyway and it's possible they put it out there because they need to get some feedback and he basically said is bullshit and also distracting from the Mercure hack which is apparently a massive hack that these guys are doing AI training using experts. You should look into that and their stuff, all of it got released and it turns out they're breaking the law there's all kinds of vials. It's just a whole slew of problems for this company that's being nobody's talking about that and they're talking about this anthropic thing and it's not important. What is Merkur?
1:17:59 You gotta look it up. Well, so you can't tell me? I can tell you it's a company that... Mercor. Yeah M-E-R-C-O-R. They train AI using experts to train the... It is a completely different approach which is very effective and unfortunately it's all gone Well, this is not unfortunate. This is great! The more... It's great for me. The more this stuff is open source and we can run it at home the better I see it as fantastic and there's no stopping this. These Chinese models they keep coming out with... Oh, and by the way according to JC what would happen at Mercure or Mercore the Chinese will gobble up? Yes! And they'll make a compressed version of it stuff you know It's quite fascinating what you can do with this stuff at home
1:19:01 And that's where this whole bubble is going to pop. I'm not against these models, they're definitely good uses for them. I mean now I finally loaded that model the 11 labs voice. I have canceled my subscription. They lost me as a customer because I can run it at home on a Raspberry Pi with an old graphic GPU from NVIDIA and old one that someone gave to me You know, I'm not making ISOs with it. Don't worry." But still... Why should I worry? Because you know 11 labs is your go-to. I've moved on! And so now Oracle who are big in the data center game