Who are these task producers? Are you saying that Anthropic, et al delegate the RL part to third party companies that do it for pretty much every other AI company as well?
Yes they're called RL gym companies and there's a whole ecosystem of them. You hardly hear about them because their only customers are AI labs and RLVR is where the improvements are coming from at the frontier right now.
Note that RLVR is incredibly compute expensive but it's CPU as much as GPU.
