Epoch AI: OpenAI researchers' coding-agent spending doubles roughly every month
scaling01 · x · 2026-10-06
Epoch AI analyzed weekly figures OpenAI recently published on its researchers' coding-agent usage, covering January to mid-August 2026, and fitted trends to measure growth. Their finding: spending on coding agents has been doubling roughly once a month, signaling rapidly accelerating reliance on agents inside frontier labs.
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