Andrew Wilson Joins Perplexity AI as Research Lead
NYU professor will lead research on continual learning and RL at the AI company.
Andrew Gordon Wilson announced his move to Perplexity AI. Perplexity co-founder and CEO Aravind Srinivas confirmed the hire, stating Wilson will report to co-founder Denis Yarats and lead efforts on continual learning, synthetic data, long horizon RL environments and architectures. Denis Yarats posted that the company is building infrastructure for large-scale RL systems with a focus on multi-agent collaboration and continual learning, and plans to share a research agenda and open source much of the work. The company is recruiting. Wilson is keeping his NYU research group active.
I am excited to announce that I am joining @perplexity_ai as research lead! We will be doing ambitious paradigm shifting work, advancing the frontiers in the open. If you want to join us in re-imagining continual learning, agent collaboration, and beyond, please reach out!
Andrew Wilson Joins Perplexity AI as Research Lead
NYU professor will lead research on continual learning and RL at the AI company.
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Surya Ganguli@SuryaGanguli@andrewgwils @perplexity_ai Congrats @andrewgwils and @perplexity_ai!
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KP Kevin Patrick Murphy@sirbayes@andrewgwils @perplexity_ai Congrats!
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TC Taco Cohen@TacoCohen@andrewgwils Time to rename the company to epiplexity?
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AS Aravind Srinivas@AravSrinivasExcited to welcome Andrew Gordon Wilson to our research team. He will be reporting to Denis and lead new research efforts on continual learning, synthetic data, long horizon RL environments and architectures. We’re hiring! Please reach out to Andrew!…
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DY Denis Yarats@denisyaratsexcited to welcome Andrew to the team! we've been building infra for large-scale RL systems, with some interesting projects on the way. our focus is multi-agent collaboration, continual learning, and RL. we'll share an update on our research agenda soon, and we plan to open…
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KC Kyle Cranmer@KyleCranmer@andrewgwils @perplexity_ai Congratulations!
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