A very interesting plot for RSI implications! Of course the devil is in the details, especially for doing useful work at frontier labs
Frontier AI research taste reportedly doubling every three months since December 2025
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Research by pzeroresearch estimates that frontier models' experimental research taste has doubled roughly every three months since December 2025, with Opus 5.5 now exceeding their expert human baseline.
The author of the main post, Boris Power, calls the plot very interesting for recursive self-improvement implications, while noting that the details matter for doing useful work at frontier labs.
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How fast is AI's research taste improving? We find that the experimental research taste of frontier models has doubled every ~3 months since December 2025. The best model, Opus 5.5, now exceeds our expert human baseline. Our human experts are experienced researchers, but most haven’t worked at a frontier lab. Why measure research taste? In the AI Futures Model, it largely determines how quickly artificial superintelligence is reached once coding is fully automated.
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