SMRTR AIJul 8, 2026Wired

I Built a Self-Improving AI, and So Can You

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A journalist built a self-improving AI model to automate newsletter research tasks, using tools from startups like Prime Intellect (recently funded at $15 million) and Anthropic's Claude. The experiment worked surprisingly well, producing a custom model that finds and summarizes AI research papers, suggesting that powerful self-improving AI isn't just for big labs anymore.

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