OpenAI 内部视角：研究加速与 RSI

Original title: Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

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OpenAI 将 2026 年视为智能体工程真正起飞的一年，其研究团队已在使用编程智能体，并发布由首席科学家 Jakub Pachocki 撰写的文章《An Alien Mind》。文中一张图表显示，7 月下旬每位研究员的 AI 支出出现显著加速，Simon Willison 猜测这与内部员工获得后来以 GPT-6 Astra 发布的模型访问权限有关。

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6th September 2026 - Link Blog

Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI. Apparently today is RSI day at OpenAI, for Recursive Self-Improvement - I think it's their new AGI. Both this piece and the new essay An Alien Mind (by Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki) talk about it, and this one doesn't even bother to expand the acronym.

Included are details on how OpenAI's own research team are using coding agents. Like pretty much everyone else 2026 has been the year that agentic engineering really took off at OpenAI, best illustrated by this chart:

I'm intrigued at what caused that significant acceleration in AI spend per researcher in late July - my best guess is that's when internal employees gained access to the model later released as GPT-6 Astra.