Mercor competitor Deccan AI raises $25M, sources experts from India

As demand grows for training and refining AI models, Deccan AI — a startup supplying post-training data and evaluation work — has raised $25 million in its first major funding round, with much of that work carried out by an India-based workforce of experts. The all-equity Series A round was led by A91 Partners, with participation from Susquehanna International Group and Prosus Ventures. While frontier AI labs, including OpenAI and Anthropic, build core models in-house, much of the post-training work — ...