🤖 OpenAI says it just built the "automated research intern"
They posted concrete internal metrics: AI agents now handle multi-day research tasks under human supervision. Next milestone is a full "automated AI researcher" by 2028.
They're pushing RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) as the new normal. The catch no one's saying loud enough: LLM capability is bound by data and compute, not code. You can automate experiments all day. You can't recurse your way to infinite GPU.
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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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