Former OpenAI researcher Barret Zoch joins Google DeepMind
barret_zoph · x · 2026-08-27
Barret Zoch announced he is joining Google DeepMind, returning to where his AI career began in the Google Brain Residency program. He will be working on Reinforcement Learning (RL) and Post-Training. He believes Google has all the ingredients to continue being incredibly successful in AI and is excited to be part of that mission.
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