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Agents2026-08-14 · source-backed
arXiv 2608.13417 ran seven frontier models across 36 long-horizon AI R&D tasks and found gains come from competent execution of known approaches, not new ideas. Useful corrective to the "AI scientist" wave. The benchmark number rises because implementation is good, and only process-level evaluation separates the two.
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