OpenAI reports reaching automated research intern capability and details research acceleration

OpenAI published a detailed internal view of research acceleration, stating it has reached the goal of an automated research intern capable of carrying out well-defined research tasks under human direction that would take a skilled researcher a few days. The post documents rapid growth in coding-agent usage among researchers, higher experiment throughput, and shifts toward longer-horizon task delegation, while noting progress toward a full automated AI researcher by March 2028 and describing safety pauses and hardened controls after recent incidents.