OpenAI is opening up about something most AI labs keep behind closed doors: how much of its own research now runs through its own AI systems. In a new report, the company says its push toward OpenAI AI research acceleration has crossed a threshold it promised roughly a year ago — even as a security breach involving its own coding agents forced researchers to pause parts of that very work over the summer.
Key takeaways
OpenAI says it reached its goal, first announced last fall, of having an automated “research intern” by September 2026 — a system able to handle well-defined tasks that would otherwise take a skilled researcher several days.
By mid-August, the median OpenAI researcher was spending more than $600 a day on coding-agent inference at API prices, while the top 10% of users burned through more than $7,000 in tokens daily.
OpenAI’s research organization now logs 3.1 agent-workdays of effort for every single human workday, a threshold crossed sometime befo
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