Elon Musk says automating AI research will look more like data cleaning than inventing the Transformer
elonmusk · x · 2026-07-26
Elon Musk says automating AI research will look more like data cleaning than inventing the transformer.
He is replying to a comment about AI research automation, framing it as an engineering-heavy workflow problem rather than a single breakthrough invention.
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