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The agent was told to produce evidence of its method's success by post-training a Qwen3-8B model on short-answer questions and coding tasks.

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post-training a Qwen3-8B model to perform better on these tasks

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Can AI automate AI R&D yet?
Epoch AI · 2026-10-07

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Epoch AI says frontier models given about 3,000 GPU-hours did not rediscover a recent post-training method. 12 Oct 2026

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“The agent was told to produce evidence of its method's success by post-training a Qwen3-8B model on short-answer questions and coding tasks.” ai notis, checked 12 Oct 2026. Source: Can AI automate AI R&D yet? (Epoch AI). https://ainotis.com/c/1019

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ai notis. (2026, October 12). The agent was told to produce evidence of its method's success by post-training a Qwen3-8B model on short-answer questions and coding tasks [Checked claim 1019]. ai notis. https://ainotis.com/c/1019

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