Karpathy Demonstrates AI Autonomously Improves Language Models

Andrej Karpathy, an OpenAI co-founder, published an experimental project called 'autoresearch' on Mar 9, 2026, where an AI agent autonomously modifies and tests language-model training code, running roughly 650 experiments and transferring gains from a depth-12 to depth-24 model. The prototype demonstrates limited self-improvement capability and has reignited discussion about near-term 'singularity' predictions from Elon Musk, Sam Altman, and Demis Hassabis.