Researcher Defends Jacob Coxon: Real Pretraining Contributions, Not Intern-Level
nabla_theta · x · 2026-09-11
Researcher nablatheta pushes back on claims being made with their tweet: Jacob Coxon made substantial pretraining contributions at OpenAI and briefly rotated to their team — clearly not intern-level. A follow-up notes Coxon had already joined Anthropic around ICML; his badge was just out of date.
Related event: X Debates Ex-OpenAI Researcher Coxon's Pretraining Credentials(2 posts)→
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