Noam Brown: recursive self-improvement is OpenAI's No.1 priority 'by a pretty wide margin'
kimmonismus · x · 2026-09-15
In an interview with The Information, OpenAI researcher Noam Brown laid out the company's research priorities:
- Recursive self-improvement is the top priority — 'by a pretty wide margin.' The first goal is building models that help develop better models.
- He also suggested AI could soon surpass his own research intuition (the excerpt cuts off).
The remarks signal that OpenAI is betting on the 'AI building better AI' loop over incremental capability gains.
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