OpenAI 'North Star': Fully Automated AI Research Intern by September 2026, Multi-Agent Research Lab by 2028
MIT Technology Review·high signal
Sam Altman announced OpenAI's central organizing goal is building a fully automated AI researcher, with an 'AI research intern' milestone targeted for September 2026 running on hundreds of thousands of GPUs. The full multi-agent research lab system — described as 'a whole research lab in a data center' by chief scientist Jakub Pachocki — is targeted for March 2028. This consolidates OpenAI's reasoning, agents, and interpretability work under a single capability North Star.