Sam Altman says OpenAI now has an AI research intern
OpenAI now has an AI research intern, chief executive Sam Altman said on Tuesday. He made the claim in his DevDay 2026 keynote in San Francisco. He told 2,500 developers that the company predicted a year ago it would reach that goal within 12 months.
“A few weeks ago we reached that goal. We now have an AI research intern,” Altman said.
Tejal Patwardhan, a research lead for post-training at OpenAI, followed him on stage. She said its models now complete more than a third of day-long research tasks with no human help. She said the models have already helped solve more than 100 maths problems that had been open for decades.
Dots and the keynote launches
Altman opened the keynote with always-on dots agents, which run on their own cloud computers. Users can call them, and texting is coming soon.
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