OpenAI is throwing everything into building a fully automated researcher
MIT Tech Review Will Douglas Heaven March 20, 2026

OpenAI is refocusing its research efforts and throwing its resources into a new grand challenge. The San Francisco firm has set its sights on building what it calls an AI researcher, a fully automated agent-based system that will be able to go off and tackle large, complex problems by itself. Open
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