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Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

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The article discusses OpenAI’s focus on Recursive Self‑Improvement (RSI), which the author suggests may represent a new form of AGI. It highlights how OpenAI’s research team is employing coding agents and notes a significant rise in AI spending per researcher in late July, likely linked to internal access to a model later released as GPT‑6 Astra. The piece references related essays and includes a chart illustrating the growth of agentic engineering at OpenAI.

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