Rumor: AI labs hiring domain experts in-house for RL data and evals
himanshustwts · x · 2026-09-06
Unverified rumors from high-level circles in SF suggest frontier labs are hiring exceptional domain experts to build domain-specific RL data and evals in-house, and that teams building strong evals could get acquired.
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