4 of my batchmates from Engineering Physics at IIT Bombay are at Anthropic/OpenAI

4 of my batchmates from Engineering Physics at IIT Bombay are at Anthropic/OpenAI From a department of 36 people that is ~12%, and I suspect it has a higher AI lab density than CSE which had ~120 people Deep physics research with PhDs pay
Ranked #42 on backlist 2026-06-16 (16 Jun 2026 UTC) · by (Aviral Bhatnagar) ·

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