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How AI Models Learn to Do Real Work

OpenRouter Events hosts an evening of drinks and networking around a fireside conversation with Osvald Nitski, Head of Product at Mercor, and Chris Clark, co-founder of OpenRouter. The two discuss the distance between strong benchmark score

Starts

2026-10-01T00:30:00+00:00

Ends

2026-10-01T03:30:00+00:00

Organizer

OpenRouter Events

Location

San Francisco, United States

OpenRouter Events hosts an evening of drinks and networking around a fireside conversation with Osvald Nitski, Head of Product at Mercor, and Chris Clark, co-founder of OpenRouter. The two discuss the distance between strong benchmark scores and models that reliably handle real work, touching on training, evaluation and deployment. The conversation covers expert data, reinforcement learning environments, model choice and agents taking on more complex tasks, with questions about how model capability should be measured and what shifts when AI absorbs work once done by people.