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Researcher Leo Boytsov jokes that human talent is the latest retrieval model, "TLNT26," amid search sector hiring

The joke followed researcher hires at Mixedbread and Databricks.

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Jimmy Lin@lintool#888inAI

🎉 Happy to see @mattjustram joining @mixedbreadai and @rpradeep42 joining @DbrxMosaicAI - grep is all you need? ❌ bm25 is all you need? ❌ both wrong - talent is all you need ✅

12:36 PM · Jun 8, 2026 · 3.7K Views
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Positive users praise talent as what matters most in Mixedbread AI and Mosaic AI's researcher hires, while negative users call the focus hypocritical since talent leaves and infra then becomes key.

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Leo Boytsov@srchvrs

I believe the latest retrieval model is TLNT26.

Jimmy Lin@lintool

🎉 Happy to see @mattjustram joining @mixedbreadai and @rpradeep42 joining @DbrxMosaicAI - grep is all you need? ❌ bm25 is all you need? ❌ both wrong - talent is all you need ✅

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Rugbist@rugbist_

@lintool @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI talent is the answer until talent leaves and suddenly infra was the answer all along

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Jimmy Lin@lintool

@rugbist_ @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI the infra to develop more talent!

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Strata@ChainZenit

@lintool @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI facts, talent really is the only thing that matters here.

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Wilder@wilderxbt

@lintool @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI hiring rounds are always a good signal. curious what drew them to those projects specifically

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Draven@notdrvx

@lintool @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI ngl the talent take is always safe but those graveyard tweets haunt me later

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Asher@ashergmi

@lintool @mattjustram @mixedbreadai @rpradeep42 @DbrxMosaicAI acknowledged

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