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A Forbes feature on the spiraling cost of enterprise AI spotlights Liquid AI co-founder and CEO Ramin Hasani, detailing how his MIT-born 'liquid neural network' research (inspired by the C. elegans worm) led to a company now valued at $4.5 billion, with Mercedes-Benz adopting its models for an in-car voice assistant.

Mercor founder Brendan Foody hosted a roughly 50-minute conversation with Liam Fedus, ChatGPT co-creator and former OpenAI VP of post-training, on Foody's podcast 'The Frontier', discussing the history of ChatGPT and Fedus's new venture Periodic Labs.

On October 7, 2026, Liquid AI open-released downloadable weights for two new judgment models, 'd1-3B' and the smaller 'd1-omni-600M', which classify text, images and (for d1-omni) short audio, with model cards published on Hugging Face.

In Spirit Airlines' bankruptcy, Google won a $10 million auction for the carrier's internal data to help train AI models, and San Francisco-based Mercor was reported to have been chosen as part of the deal; the arrangement has drawn scrutiny from more than 120 US lawmakers and a court-appointed privacy ombudsman.

A widely syndicated Business Insider story on Wall Street's push to turn Nvidia GPUs into a tradeable financial asset class names Ornn, alongside Silicon Data and Compute Desk, as one of the companies building price indexes meant to standardize GPU rental prices for a future compute futures market.

Vercel announced that Liquid AI's 'd1' decision model is now available through its AI Gateway, letting developers evaluate typed questions for classification, routing, and scoring (including vision support) via the AI SDK, an OpenAI-compatible Decisions API, or a TypeSafe-compatible API.