Post-Training Teams at Frontier AI Labs Spark Hiring Debate

A debate has emerged over the backgrounds of post-training teams at OpenAI, Anthropic and DeepMind, with some noting many members are not from traditional NLP programs, while LlamaIndex founder Jerry Liu says these labs are hiring many NLP PhDs.

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