Machine Learning Street Talk · Monday, September 14, 2026
A research scientist at a frontier AI company like Mistral AI experiences a dynamic workflow involving personal research, model training, and application investigation. They also maintain visibility across various AI domains within the company, such as text, reasoning, vision, and robotics, to incorporate the latest techniques.
“Uh, an average day involves like doing a lot of, uh, my own research work, training models, running applications, uh, investigating, uh, Evals and stuff, but also following the work, uh, that's happening across the company.”
“Uh, even though I focus on audio, I closely model, uh, our work on text pre-training, post-training, reasoning, uh, vision, uh, and more recently, we have ventured into robotics foundation models as well.”