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The people that are constantly up to date on this stuff tend to be AI/ML researchers and engineers. In academia, industry research groups, or startups.

They literally get paid to read papers, and implement models on a day-to-day basis.

I wouldn't worry too much not being up to date or things sounding a bit foreign. The names themselves are just that, names, the models themselves tend to be incremental versions of some previous model.

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Most of the startups I've chatted with seem to prioritize finding people who build products. The complaint/regret I've heard from 3-5 organizations was hiring researchers.

Researcher is more for highly funded organizations. Starrups can get by with off the shelf models.