Meta's autonomous research agent AIRA3 wins Kaggle gold, placing 8th of ~4,000 teams
andrew_n_carr · x · 2026-09-06
Meta entered AIRA3, its next-gen autonomous AI research system, into a live NVIDIA-run Kaggle competition in June: fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model to reason better, with all competitors given the same information and graded externally on a private test set. AIRA3 placed 8th out of 4,000 teams to win gold, beating human competitors with the same frontier tools. Meta sees this as a reliable signal the system can improve a targeted model capability at near-human-expert level. Andrew Carr likens it to OpenAI's IMO/IOI results a year ago, but for RSI.
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