Frontier Model AI Research Experiment: Best Runs Close 82% Gap to Human Records
eliebakouch · x · 2026-08-16
PrimeIntellect ran the largest open experiment evaluating frontier models' ability to conduct AI research. It involved 100+ autonomous runs across 10+ models, sandboxed on 8xH200s for up to 8 days, iterating on the nanoGPT optimizer track. The best runs closed 82% of the gap to a record built by dozens of humans over months.
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