Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
OpenAI @OpenAI · blog · 2026-09-06 · ★★★★ · archived
OpenAI's self-assessment that it met its September 2026 'automated AI research intern' goal (3.1 agent-workdays per human workday).
Summary
OpenAI report on coding-agent use inside its research organisation. By mid-August 2026 it logged 3.1 agent-workdays per human workday; the median researcher spent more than $600/day on tokens and the 90th percentile more than $7,000/day. It declares the automated research intern milestone met and keeps March 2028 as the target for an automated AI researcher. It calls the measurements preliminary. openai.com returns 403 to our fetcher; this summary is from press coverage (Help Net Security, Unite.AI, ai-tldr.dev).
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Page title: Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI
Page description: Inside OpenAI, coding agents are reshaping AI research. Explore early data on agent usage, experiment velocity, task complexity, and research acceleration.
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