LlamaIndex founder: post-training teams at frontier labs hire Stanford/MIT NLP PhDs at the highest rate
lateinteraction · x · 2026-10-16
Responding to a claim that post-training teams mostly aren't from NLP labs, LlamaIndex founder Jerry Liu says that relative to the pool of NLP PhDs from Stanford/MIT/CMU, hands-on post-training folks at OpenAI, Anthropic, DeepMind and neolabs hire them at the highest rate — along with grads from equally "solved" fields like vision, robotics and ML.
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