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

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**Published:** 2026-08-24T16:52:09.000Z
**Category:** Research
**Topics:** perplexity, rl, open\-source, synthetic\-data

## Summary

Denis Yarats will oversee the development of long horizon reinforcement learning environments and synthetic data pipelines as Perplexity expands its technical…

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