ML4 lands with strong agentic skills and 'past the threshold' for recursive self-improvement
Fluke_Ellington · x · 2026-10-06
A researcher claims ML4 is out and notably strong at general agentic tasks — the day-to-day knowledge work LLMs will take over after software. The key assertion: the model has now crossed the threshold to build environments and recursively self-improve, and the team is recruiting to work on exactly that.
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