OpenAI Researcher Says Automating AI R&D Is the Company’s Top Model Priority

OpenAI researcher Noam Brown said the company’s top priority for new AI models is improving their ability to do AI research and development, describing recursive self-improvement as the leading goal by a wide margin. The comments sharpen the public picture of OpenAI’s strategy: frontier models are no longer being judged only by chat quality, coding benchmarks or multimodal polish, but by whether they can help build the next generation of AI systems.