Submit an Expression of Interest with a one- or two-page document covering team background
Conduct AI capabilities research in areas such as real-world evaluations, environments
Utilize funding for expert time, researcher hours, API credits, and event/conference stipends
Publish research outputs such as papers, open datasets, public methodologies, or tools for the field

🎯 Requirements

Academic groups, independent researchers, and non-profit organizations
Specific, well-scoped research question
Experience with agentic evaluation, RL environments, and post-training (bonus)

🎁 Benefits

Funding for autonomous frontier-work
Access to Mercor's expert network for human grading and annotation across domains
Access to Mercor's internal evaluation infrastructure (subject to review)
Introductions to Mercor's network of researchers across frontier labs and academia

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