
No AI agent met the expert bar on open national-lab research tasks
Of 135 submissions from nine agents, 114 failed integrity checks, and only GPT-6 Astra produced one complete paper.
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Of 135 submissions from nine agents, 114 failed integrity checks, and only GPT-6 Astra produced one complete paper.
On PSNR-targeted runs, manuscripts beat reproduced baselines by 0.18 to 3.78 dB, the paper says.
Agents with distinct disciplines, private histories, and adaptive allocation report gains over GDN2 at 1.3B scale.
Authors say Épi-turbo beat Codex by 5.4% on 30 FrontierOR tasks at 64% of the model cost.
Athanor agents autonomously post-trained Qwen3-4B-Base to match official Qwen3-4B-Instruct on held-out tasks.
Proposes Discovery Foundation Models that participate in creating new problems and knowledge, instantiated in Zetema and the GALILEO therapeutic-discovery system.
Case study shows autonomous LLM research reaches 90% of SOTA on telecom ticket retrieval in 10 weeks versus 10 months human work.
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