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title: "Chapter 3, the intern, due 31 August 2027 · The AI Compute Race · DRYBURGH"
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description: "Chapter 3, the intern: due 31 August 2027."
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# Chapter 3, the intern

Due 31 August 2027

**The test.** The sentence “nobody else can yet check” is withdrawn if OpenAI publishes the intern benchmark, trajectories and a reliability rate.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](https://dryburgh.com/vol1#buy)

**Falls due:** 31 August 2027

**Read on:** OpenAI’s own publication

**Chapter:** [Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-3)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.

## What it names

- Party [OpenAI](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/parties/openai)

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- Person [Pachocki, Jakub](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/people#pachocki-jakub)
- Chapter notes [Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher](https://dryburgh.com/vol1/notes/chapter-3)

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