NYU Researcher on Leave Joins Google to Build New Gemini Evaluations
tallinzen · x · 2026-09-25
The author announces he is on leave from NYU this year and spending more time at Google, working on new ways to evaluate Gemini. He remains based in NYC and checks in regularly on his NYU group, joking that he makes sure their agents don't go rogue.
It's another case of academic talent joining frontier labs via leave arrangements, and a sign that evaluation research is becoming a priority investment for major model companies.
Related event: NYU Professor Tal Linzen Takes Leave to Join Google for Gemini Evals(3 posts)→
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