Kat Hu

Today we're excited to share that Sepal AI has been acquired by Mercor. Sepal started with one idea: the world’s top experts can accelerate human knowledge & capabilities through safe AI. We built Sepal end to end around that idea. To our research partners: thank you for trusting us in innovating with and scaling some of your most impactful research directions. It’s been an honor to see our collaboration directly impact the world’s leading AI models & evaluations. To our experts: it’s been a privilege to collaborate and learn from all of you. Our team often has pinch me moments where we spend our day-to-day with thousands of world-leading experts - professors, international olympiad medalists, engineers, clinicians, operators, and industry practitioners across 40+ domains. & of course most importantly, to our team: thank you thank you thank you - Sepal would not be the research data engine without each and every one of you. 🌱 Our work doesn’t stop here; it accelerates. Thank you for joining us on our journey, onwards towards the next chapter with Mercor.

my last li post got a lot of views so want to add on to gratitudes. thank you Robi Lin & Steven Shang for being the best cofounders sepal & i could have. thank you for your leadership, for setting our culture, for moving mountains, for being through thick & thin together. not sure who's ok to be named & tagged, so the rest is anon: the sepal team - all of you. i often think that the people we work with are the most important thing, because we spend so much of our lives at work. all of you are people i want to spend my life with. our early research partners (ai researchers & experts) - you know who you are, thank you for betting on us before we were anything. honestly to everyone who bets on a startup & extends trust - thank you. & to our domain team leads & ops leads & applied eng - you guys make the ship run. thank you. to a gsb professor & to a chief ai scientist who've shared the same life mantra: pass it forward; give forward; ask what you can give. thank you for passing forward & showing up with wisdom. +many more gratitudes (mentors, advisors, investors, friends, family); all to say, thank you ❤️

Come join Sepal 🌱 to safely advance the frontier of AI research & spend your days working on meaningful, audacious problems. Most impt internal roles we're hiring: 1. Strategic Project Lead 2. ML Engineer & Full Stack Engineer Short term roles: We have 80+ active roles on our expert hub page that are first come first serve. We are paying up to $494 / hour (e.g., radiologists) with many roles above $85 / hour for the world's leading experts. Another photo of the team to drive views to this linkedin post. 📷