Shayne Longpre Joins Anthropic As Member Of Technical Staff
Recent MIT PhD graduate moves to San Francisco for role focusing on pretraining and AI societal impacts.
Shayne Longpre recently completed a PhD at MIT covering data, scaling laws, evaluation, transparency, and ecosystem topics in language models. He announced joining Anthropic as Member of Technical Staff in San Francisco, with responsibilities spanning pretraining and societal impacts of AI models. Multiple researchers from institutions including University of Washington, McGill, Meta, and Allen Institute publicly confirmed the move through congratulatory replies on the announcement.
Life Update: I recently moved to San Francisco and joined @AnthropicAI as a Member of Technical Staff. In this next chapter, I’m fortunate to be working across pretraining and societal impacts. Over the past few years—much to the anxiety of my advisors—my PhD research at @MIT…
