Illustrated portrait of Jacob Menick

Jacob Menick is a frontier AI research scientist, engineer, and technologist.

<last name><letter J><letter L>[at]gmail[dot]com

New York City, USA

My current research interests center around:

  1. improvements over obvious shortcomings in the RL recipes used to train LLMs.
  2. the search for more data-efficient paradigms to pick up the baton from next-token prediction and verifiable RL.

This is a subset; I just love deep learning.

new post — August 31, 2026