BREAKING
OpenAI Sets AI Researcher Timeline
Two Milestones Ahead
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Research intern by Sept 2026
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Autonomous researcher by Mar 2028
The Key Benchmark: Task Horizon
Ambition Meets Skepticism
Optimists
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Models near intern level on narrow tasks
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Progress in coding and math
Skeptics
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Real science is messy and open-ended
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Benchmarks may not extrapolate
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planned compute investment
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intern milestone year
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autonomous target year
Goals, Not Products Yet
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OpenAI has laid out internal targets for automating AI research itself.