Research acceleration: The view inside OpenAI

OpenAI has announced RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement), which the article describes as their new AGI (artificial general intelligence, an AI system that can perform any intellectual task as well as humans). The company's research team is using coding agents (AI programs that can write and execute code autonomously), and there was a significant increase in AI spending per researcher in late July 2026, possibly coinciding with when employees gained access to GPT-6 Astra.