Can a 27B model push the Pareto frontier of autonomous research and beat 1T–2.8T giants?
Meet AREX-2 (27B), spearheaded by BAAI in collaboration with USTC and RUC (built on Qwen3.8-27B). Turning Recursive Self-Improvement (RSI) into a practical test-time scaling paradigm, we pinpoint two keys to self-evolution: Deep Reflection & Long-Horizon Execution. By reinforcing algorithmic optimization tasks, AREX-2 emerges with exceptional deep reflection and long-horizon execution capabilities—significantly boosting its performance oncomplex coding and deep research to top MLE-bench Lite (81.8) and set new ≤40B SOTA on BrowseComp (84.0) & HLE (52.6)👇
