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Anthropic

  • AI may of course also help with being smarter about choosing what experiments to run: improving experimental design, learning more from a first round of experiments so that the second round can narrow in on key questions, and so on.Dario Amodei, Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Anthropic. Machines of Loving Grace, Undated.
  • An area of human comparative advantage, for now, is research taste and judgment, including choosing which problems matter, which results to trust, and when an approach is a dead end.The Anthropic Institute, Institute essay "When AI builds itself". When AI builds itself \ Anthropic, Undated.
  • Similarly, once Claude can run experiments, the question shifts towards “Which of these experiments is worth running?The Anthropic Institute, Institute essay "When AI builds itself". When AI builds itself \ Anthropic, Undated.
  • We find that hill-climbing on only one benchmark does not lead to a generalizable result.Chen Yueh-Han, Jiaxin Wen, Jan Hendrik Kirchner (Anthropic Alignment Science Blog), Research post, work done during the Anthropic Fellows Program. Automated Researchers Can Mitigate Well-Characterized Alignment Failures, Undated.
  • The held-out benchmark tests generalization: it is never shown to the AARChen Yueh-Han, Jiaxin Wen and Jan Hendrik Kirchner, Paper coauthors, work done during the Anthropic Fellows Program. Automated Researchers Can Mitigate Well-Characterized Alignment Failures, Undated.
  • deciding what experiments to run, interpreting what comes back, and figuring out which ideas to try next.The Anthropic Institute, Research and engineering account. When AI builds itself, Undated.

Google DeepMind

  • By having agents 'debate' scientific ideas and hypotheses, this system acts as a collaborator capable of performing the rigorous thinking necessary to identify patterns in data and solve sophisticated problems.Demis Hassabis, Chief Executive Officer, Google DeepMind. From games to biology and beyond: 10 years of AlphaGo’s impact, Mar 10, 2026.
  • Key responsibilities include identifying core research questions, designing and evaluating novel models, and pioneering new approaches in specialized domains like Gemini.Google DeepMind Careers, Careers page, role description: Research Scientist. Careers at Google DeepMind, Undated.
  • Driven to push the boundaries of AI, they formulate novel hypotheses and algorithmic paradigms that spark world-changing breakthroughs.Google DeepMind Careers, Careers page, role description: Research Scientist. Careers at Google DeepMind, Undated.

OpenAI

  • Advanced AI is interesting for many reasons, but perhaps nothing is quite as significant as the fact that we can use it to do faster AI research.Sam Altman, Chief Executive Officer, OpenAI. The Gentle Singularity, Undated.

Mila

  • Unfortunately, the harder a system can optimize for an imperfect metric, the further its behavior can drift from what we morally expected: more intelligence in the service of better cheating.Yoshua Bengio, Founder and Scientific Advisor, Mila. Why are AI agents lying, cheating and coordinating?, Sep 11, 2026.

UK AI Security Institute

Cohere

Mistral AI

  • Rigor. We take an analytical and data-driven approach to decision-making.Mistral AI Careers, Careers page, "Our values". Careers at Mistral, Undated.
  • Beyond experience, we value people with intellectual rigor who challenge thinking, sharpen the way we work, and bring informed perspectives.Mistral AI Careers, Careers page, "Interviewing with us". Careers at Mistral, Undated.

Thinking Machines Lab

  • The difference in logprobs between the trainer and the sampler probably isn’t a real bug, right? We reject this defeatism.Horace He in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines, Connectionism research blog post. Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference, Sep 10, 2025.
  • Research productivity is paramount and heavily depends on the reliability, efficiency, and ease of use of infrastructure.Thinking Machines Lab, Company home page, "Solid foundations matter". Thinking Machines Lab, Undated.

Microsoft Research

  • Postdoc researchers are expected to demonstrate both independence in defining their own research strategy within a domain as well as an ability to drive forward an effective program of research.Microsoft Research Careers, Careers in research page, postdoctoral positions. Research Careers - Microsoft Research, Undated.

Allen Institute for AI

  • Current AI-based climate models reduce present-day climate bias, but don’t generalize well to future climate change.Ai2 (job posting on job-boards.greenhouse.io/thealleninstitute), Job posting: Research Scientist, Climate Modeling. Research Scientist, Climate Modeling, Undated.

Thinking Machines

  • Reproducibility is a bedrock of scientific progress. However, it’s remarkably difficult to get reproducible results out of large language models.Horace He, Author, in collaboration with others at Thinking Machines. Defeating Nondeterminism in LLM Inference, Sep 10, 2025.