Epoch AI · 2026-10-09
Can AI automate AI R&D yet?
“As of right now, AI is far from automating AI R&D.”
- Who
- Epoch AI
- Date
- 2026-10-09 Date from the Substack post.
- Evidence
- official post with figures about evidence levels
- Replication
- None recorded
- Checked
- 2026-10-15, against the source page
- Links
- Source
Also on the page
- Epoch gave Fable 5 and GPT-5.6 each 3,000 GPU-hours to develop a new post-training technique. A score of 100% means matching the gains of a published method, SDPO, over a GRPO baseline. "Recent frontier models’ best efforts topped out at 15% of the performance gains from SDPO".
- The post also gives a more generous reading: "If assessed generously, Sol’s method achieved 35% of SDPO’s gains".