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Future of general LLM work (interp/inference/alignment) vs agentic/physical AI (VLA, multimodal) for career [D]

A prospective graduate student is weighing two unnamed grad school options that would steer research toward either general large language model work in interpretability, inference, and alignment or agentic and physical AI including vision-language-action models and multimodal systems. The student asked for general advice on the two fields' growth and industry alignment, omitting program specifics to compare research and career trajectories.

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I'm at a crossroads with two grad school options that would take me in somewhat different research directions, and I wanted some general advice on these fields, their growth, and industry alignment. I'm leaving out the specifics of the programs since I'm tryna compare the research/career trajectorie

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