Google DeepMind now lets AI agents autonomously run parts of model training, says Koray Kavukcuoglu
HaydnBelfield · x · 2026-09-25
At The Information's AI summit, Google DeepMind chief Koray Kavukcuoglu said the company now trusts AI agents to autonomously conduct experiments, analyze results, and propose hypotheses in the model-training process under human supervision — something agents couldn't do six months ago. Models aren't training themselves yet, he said, but the company is getting closer, a signal AI safety researcher Haydn Belfield called an important window into Google's thinking on recursive improvement.
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