OpenAI Blog

How Third Moment Research runs 10,000 agents for 36+ hours

The article describes how the Third Moment Research lab uses GPT‑6 Astra and GPT‑6.1 Sol, along with Codex and Daybreak, to run 10,000 agents continuously for over 36 hours. These agents are designed to focus on tasks for extended periods and improve their performance through repeated use. The focus is on cybersecurity applications, leveraging advanced AI models to enhance agent capabilities over time.

OpenAI Blog
Sep 6

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

The article discusses how coding agents are transforming AI research within OpenAI. It presents early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and the resulting acceleration of research. The piece highlights the growing role of these agents in speeding up development and experimentation.

arXiv AI
Oct 9

AgentTime: Can Agents Estimate and Control Their Own Runtime?

AgentTime is a benchmark that tests whether AI agents can manage their own runtime by working for a specified duration, predicting their wall‑clock time, and estimating elapsed time afterward. It includes 222 tasks from 18 sources across coding, computer use, agentic work, and automated research, with duration‑following experiments that append a single instruction specifying how long to work. Results show significant variability in accuracy, with some agents deviating from requested runtimes by up to 2.9×, and many agents stopping prematurely even after completing a task.

By Michael Ofengenden, Maksym Andriushchenko