Community Poll Ranks Neolabs by Talent Density as RL Scaling Researcher Recruits
agarwl_ · x · 2026-10-03
An Anthropic researcher (@agarwl) announced openings to work closely on the science of scaling RL, while quoting a community poll on talent density among sub-$10B neolabs:
- Core Automation (32 votes, @arohan)
- Periodic Labs (26, Liam Fedus, Ekin Dogus)
- Flapping Airplanes (20)
- Standard Intelligence (18)
- Ricursive (8), with Ineffable (David Silver), Mirendil, and Recursive (Richard Socher et al.) trailing.
Related event: Core Automation tops 73-person vote on AI neolab talent density(2 posts)→
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