Thom Wolf: big labs are air-gapped, but researcher departures still leak information
Thom_Wolf · x · 2026-09-19
EleutherAI co-founder Thom Wolf notes that while big AI labs are air-gapped, information still flows between them as researchers leave for other labs — "little particles of information flowing in the air." Talent mobility, not infrastructure, is the main channel for frontier AI knowledge diffusion.
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