building @motion_so at @mosaic_so // prev yc, tesla, 300+ mario kart world records
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Mercor suffered a massive data breach back in March. It was so bad some people thought the company would die. Instead, they kept their heads down and focused on building something people want. They're still alive and ended up growing even more.
Big lesson in that
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.
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There's likely a good reason why anthropic put the number 5.2 instead of 5.5 on fable.
It's a cool model, but definitely not a step function compared to opus 5.5.
Claude Fable 5.2 vs Claude Opus 5.5 with Motion👇
Same prompt. Here are the results:
Fable 5.2: $88.09 · 2h 35m 37s
Opus 5.5: $17.03 · 3h 54m 14s
Fable cost almost 5x as much, but it finished more than an hour faster.
Which do you prefer for the time and cost?
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I'm having @motion_so grow a faceless youtube channel completely on autopilot. Will update you on the results.
So far in the last 3 days, it's gotten 12.5k views and exponentially growing.
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Sometimes I wonder if these zero-days were exploits the NSA has been using this entire time and we only just recently uncovered them thanks to AI
What a disaster atlasum.net/blog/cve-2026-98…
The deadline for the upcoming @ycombinator batch is November 2nd. If you're on the fence, just apply! Filling out the application is a great exercise for founders to figure out if they're building something people want.
2 years later, we're still tackling the same problem
it's awesome to see all the new excitement around agentic editing.
here's a video my co-founder and i recorded in 2024—the raw footage was for our @ycombinator application video.
almost 2 years ago we set out to build "the Cursor for Video Editing".
i think we've finally done it. 👇
this video was inspired by the @typesafeai launch video and edited with one prompt to @motion_so.
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Kyle retweeted
There’s a huge blindspot in the inference market today: it’s built almost entirely for coding agents.
Voice is how billions of people will interface with AGI. That’s what we’re building at @hopper_research : the inference cloud for voice
Excited to launch today at withhopper.com
Kyle retweeted
"I wish upon you ample doses of pain & suffering" — @JensenHuang
one-shotted this edit with Motion's new General Video Agent mode
this was oneshot btw, only on motion.so!
We migrated our entire company’s cloud off Railway.
We’ve been loyal to Railway for years and truly love the product. Trust is critical for enterprise-grade infrastructure. Unfortunately, that trust was lost yesterday.
I hope (and do believe) they will come back from this.
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