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Independent reporting says OpenAI prioritizes recursive self-improvement and hopes models will eventually make their own optimizations. DIRECT_TEXT

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Source: GPT-6 Astra gives mathematicians a breather, and OpenAI says that's by design · locator {} · excerpt hash sha256:68e7194deb093333d302108b2cc4371b541c6d345a1484f0ee1cc2f72f36bc7d

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OpenAI is pouring its resources into recursive self-improvement and securing future AI systems, since "we believe it is the only way to remain at the frontier of AI research moving forward," Pachocki writes. ... Behind the RSI priority, though, is the hope that the model will eventually make those optimizations itself, scaling faster across the board, including in math.

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