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Perplexity Hires Andrew Gordon Wilson as Research Lead to Open Source RL Work

AnnouncementTalentAug 24, 2026

Perplexity has hired Andrew Gordon Wilson as research lead to direct initiatives including long horizon reinforcement learning environments and synthetic data pipelines, which Denis Yarats will oversee. The company is building infrastructure for large scale RL systems and plans to open source much of the resulting work. Perplexity is also recruiting for its research organization to support a new agenda centered on continual learning.

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