APEX, Deeptune and Mercor Research: The Bet on Owning the Whole Training Stack

Mercor's biggest 2026 moves - the APEX benchmark family, the Deeptune acquisition, the launch of a formal research team, and post-training experiments with Nvidia - all point in one direction: evals, environments, data and training under one roof. This module explains each piece and how to discuss them intelligently in an interview.