Sale AI, which helps technology companies prepare data to train AI models, filed a lawsuit against one of the former sales and Mercor officials on Wednesday. The lawsuit claims that the employee, who was hired by Mercor, “stole more than 100 confidential documents on client strategies and other privately owned information”, according to a copy of TechCrunch.
The scale sued Mercor for embezzlement of commercial secrets and sued the former employee, Eugene Ling, for breach of the contract. The suit also claims that the employee was trying to place Mercor on one of the largest clients on the scale before officially abandoning his previous job. The suit calls this company “Customer A.”
Mercor’s co -founder, Surya Midha, denies that his company has used any data from the scale, although he admits that Ling may own some.
“While Mercor has hired many people who left the scale, we have no interest in any of the commercial secrets of the scale and in fact deliberately execute our business in a different way.
“We have reached the scale six days ago offering to have Eugene to destroy the files or reach a different resolution and now we are waiting for their answer,” Midha said.
The scale argues that these documents contained the specific data that would allow Mercor to serve the Customer A, as well as several others of the most important clients on the scale.
The scale wanted the Mercor to give it a complete list of files on the drive and to prevent Ling from working with Customer A. supports the suit that Mercor refused. Ling did not respond immediately to TechCrunch’s request for comments, but later wrote to x: “As soon as I heard I had a scale lawsuit. Last month, I left the scale to work on Mercor, I know this was frustrating for my old team and I feel bad about it.”
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Continue Ling: “When the scale arrived in some files I had in my personal move, I asked if I could delete them, but the scale asked to do nothing with them, so I still wait for the guidance of how to solve it.
There are few indications in the suit about client A. A. The costume says that if the scale opponent won this client away, it would be a “Mercury” contract “worth a Mercor”.
Whatever the details of this pipeline, it shows one thing: the scale is clearly concerned about Mercor’s threat to do legal actions. As previously mentioned by TechCrunch, even with Meta’s many billion dollars investments, the TBD Labs-The Basic Unit within the META entrusted with the building of the Superintelligence AI-followed to use Mercu services and other LLM data service providers.
Mercor is rising to the LLM training arena, because it is known for the recruitment of special content, often doctoral, to train LLM data in their fields of expertise.
In June, Scale announced that Meta is investing $ 14.3 billion in a scale of $ 49% and hired its founder. A little later, Many of AI’s largest data customers who are competitors in META’s efforts, according to information, reduce the links with this.
He was informed with social comments through Eugene Ling.
