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Frontier data labelling at scale, profitable and undiluted. Forbes AI 50 2026; no outside capital.

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An indicative per-share price for Surge AI, averaged across a private-share marketplace. It is not a tradable quote.

Indicative Price

$25.00per share▲ 0.00%+0.00 since prior mark

As of Nov 10, 2026, averaged across 1 source

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Source: Aggregated from multiple private-share marketplaces

Last primary round: Bootstrapped; $1B+ revenue (est.), curated from reported financings. For information only, not investment advice.

Model
Forbes says Edwin Chen is worth $18 billion. No one has ever priced Surge AI.
Forbes' 2026 list values Edwin Chen's 75% of Surge AI at $18 billion, implying the bootstrapped data-labeler is worth about $24 billion. Rival marks at Scale AI and Mercor were set by cash; Surge's traces to funding talks that never closed.
October 26, 2026three-minute read

Deals
Mercor raises $750 million at $20 billion on a tasker network paying $2 to $10 an hour
Nvidia, Salesforce and Zoom joined a $750 million round that doubled the AI-training network's valuation to $20 billion. What the mark rests on: a five-million-expert network whose floor pays $2 to $10 an hour, in the week a rival labeler liquidated.
November 11, 2026two-minute read
Model
Mistral prices Large 4 at a twelfth of OpenAI's GPT-6 Astra rate as a LangChain test cut coding costs 64%
Mistral listed Large 4 at a twelfth of GPT-6 Astra's output price, LangChain's router cut coding cost 64% with no quality loss, and Atlassian took OpenAI money while refusing to make Astra its default. The evidence points one way: the tollbooth is moving from the model to the door.
October 7, 2026three-minute read

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