Why they are on the map
Leads Nemotron post-training teams; senior author on HelpSteer3 (Scale AI + Translated annotators) source — evidence dated 2026-09
Needs the data for a model; writes the spec.
How NVIDIA (Nemotron / Cosmos) buys data
HelpSteer3-Preference (2025) used 6,400+ annotators in 77 countries sourced/managed by Scale AI (general, STEM, code with degree/SWE bars) and Translated (multilingual). Nemotron 3 report (Dec 2025) lists dedicated Data, Post-training, Evaluation/Safety and Project Management groups but no annotation vendor; RL is mostly environment-based.
Nemotron post-training under Oleksii Kuchaiev (Applied Research), leadership incl. Jonathan Cohen, Bryan Catanzaro, Kari Briski; HelpSteer human-data programme run by Zhilin Wang and co-authors; 15-person project-management pool. Visual generation in Ming-Yu Liu's research group.
Known vendors: scale-ai, Translated
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