Why do frontier AI labs send so many people to conferences? [D](reddit.com)

Recent years I see plenty of folks from OpenAI and Anthropic attending conferences like ICML/Neurips, yet obviously few are presenting. Are they mainly recruiting? Following emerging research? Curious if anyone with firsthand experience can shed some light on how attendance is justified internally and what the main objectives usually are. submitted by /u/snekslayer [link] [Kommentare]