What people don’t know is that AI research in transformer era is not that hard and rather reptitive. It’s just experience dealing with large compute, which can be largely automated too. That’s why you have 25 year olds leading post training at labs
OPENAI SAYS IT WANTS A SIGNIFICANT FRACTION OF ITS RESEARCH DONE BY AI BY MARCH 2028
OpenAI published its long-term plan for the next phase of AI.
The company listed three main goals:
1. Build an automated AI researcher
OpenAI says its internal belief is that by March 2028, a significant fraction of its research may be done by AI systems working alongside human researchers.
2. Accelerate the economy
The focus is scientific progress, productivity growth and making sure AI’s economic gains are shared more broadly.
3. Give every person on Earth a personal AGI
OpenAI frames this as the next major access layer, similar to how electricity changed ordinary life when it spread beyond cities.
The company says it is entering its third phase:
Phase 1: AGI research
Phase 2: product company
Phase 3: making advanced AI abundant, affordable, safe and useful for everyone.