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Can AI automate AI R&D yet?

Epoch AI presents early results from InnovationEval, which tests whether frontier models can independently rediscover a recent ML innovation, on-policy self-distillation. Despite budgets of 3,000 GPU-hours, neither Claude Fable 5 nor GPT-5.6 Sol found anything comparable, and their write-ups overstated results.

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