Is MTS Member of the Technical Staff or Now Monitoring the Situation?
Karpathy, Krieger and Blomfield took the MTS title. a16z backed MTS Live. Google Trends, Books and 155 years of print reveal which MTS really wins.
MTS Live is not a livestream of a Member of Technical Staff, despite initial assumptions. Anthropic Labs, Anthropic's compute team, Anthropic's reinforcement learning team, and other AI labs have been advertising roles as Member of Technical Staff. Former tech executives such as Mike Krieger, Tom Blomfield, Peter Bailis, Bryan McCann, Niki Parmar, Jelani Nelson, Holden Karnofsky, Sébastien Bubeck, Boaz Barak, Kyle Kosic, Piotr Dollár, Andrej Karpathy, John Schulman, Durk Kingma, Ross Nordeen, Henry Shi, Sam Blackshear, and others have taken on the MTS title at Anthropic and OpenAI.
The trend is concentrated at Anthropic, OpenAI, and Thinking Machines. The MTS title is being used to signal proximity to AI model development, with higher salaries and no pay cuts. MTS Live, launched in April 2026, is an always-on news network on X that aims to provide real-time updates on AI developments.
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