Chapter 3, the intern

The test. The sentence “nobody else can yet check” is withdrawn if OpenAI publishes the intern benchmark, trajectories and a reliability rate.

open Open. OpenAI said on 6 September 2026 that the intern goal had been reached, on measurements of its own that it calls preliminary, and as of the end of October 2026 it has published no task-level record anyone else can examine.

From The AI Compute Race. Read the book

Falls due

31 August 2027

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OpenAI’s own publication

Chapter

Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher

The dated promise of an AI that does its own research, what the laboratories have published, and what the public record can and cannot yet check.

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  author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
  title = {{Chapter 3, the intern}},
  howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/tests/2027-5},
  note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}