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Oct 7

AI developers aim to create an automated AI researcher. How close are they?

To find out, we built InnovationEval, which tests whether AI can produce post-training innovations comparable in magnitude to a recently published advance. So far, agents’ results are underwhelming.

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AI is already used to automate many individual tasks in AI R&D. But full automation requires AI to independently think up and investigate research ideas.

Oct 7, 2026, 6:08 PM UTC

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