What do frontier AI companies' job postings reveal about their plans?

kept by eddie mar 27

Epoch AI analyzes job postings from OpenAI, Anthropic, xAI, and DeepMind to reveal shifting strategies toward go-to-market roles, hardware bets like robotics and devices, and differing approaches to compute and data sourcing.

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