iMerit, an EXL Company, launches iMerit Scholars platform as AI talent war shifts to domain expertise
Key Highlights
- ➤iMerit launches platform managing hundreds of thousands of global AI domain experts
- ➤iMerit Scholars community includes 30,000 vetted professionals across 118 countries
- ➤EXL acquired iMerit in July to accelerate frontier AI for regulated enterprises
- ➤Platform supports specialized AI training, evaluation, validation, and safety workflows
Expert Statements
Radha Basu, Executive vice president, head of iMerit at EXL
“iMerit has always differentiated itself by a curated, people-first approach. We’re seeing that become even more important as we scale up to help the frontier labs”
Radha Basu, Executive vice president, head of iMerit at EXL
“The next phase of the GenAI race is about creating a painless and supportive infrastructure so that these highly capable specialists can enjoy their work and give their best. Scaling high quality and high engagement is mainly a human capital opportunity, backed by enabling technology. The iMerit Scholars platform is designed to create a seamless experience for top-notch talent to continue building and improving the next generation of AI.”
Radha Basu, Executive vice president, head of iMerit at EXL
“Now, as a part of EXL, we are expanding from the creation of models in frontier labs to the implementation of model workflows in highly regulated enterprises in banking, healthcare and insurance. Once again, we find that trust, safety, and last-mile customization will dictate the success of AI projects in these sectors. We need people who are knowledgeable enough not just to teach models, but to prove them wrong and correct them. That parallel human authority is what will help move AI from innovation to trusted execution”
Pavel Kopach, M.D., Department of Pathology, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and iMerit Scholar in Healthcare AI
“Working with AI in this way feels like contributing to something foundational. You’re not just labeling data, you’re helping shape how these systems reason and behave in your field. That’s both challenging and incredibly rewarding.”
NEW YORK, Oct. 26, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- iMerit, an EXL company, today announced the launch of its iMerit Scholars platform, designed to seamlessly manage hundreds of thousands of global domain experts (Scholars) who work on fine-tuning, evaluation and validation of generative AI models. This represents the first major launch since EXL (Nasdaq: EXLS) acquired iMerit in July to accelerate the progression of frontier AI into regulated enterprises.
The launch comes as the AI talent war heats up across generative and physical AI. The iMerit Scholars program already brings together a curated global community of 30,000 domain experts and linguists to support advanced model training, evaluation, validation and safety across specialized fields. The new iMerit Scholars platform provides a unified system to recruit, onboard, curate, assign, manage, engage, pay, and retain these experts at scale. It is powered by iMerit’s proprietary Ango Hub, which allows customers and experts to collaborate on complex multimodal data to generate highly curated and validated training artifacts for high-stakes models.
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