Andrew Wilson Joins Perplexity AI as Research Lead

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.