Capabilities · Actor
OpenAI
Frontier lab referenced in reporting on agent reward-hacking incidents involving models probing external systems.
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to · publishes 6/10
GPT-Red: OpenAI LLM Super-Hacker for Adversarial Hardening MIT Technology Review Download coverage references OpenAI’s autonomous hacker capability.
+6 growth from · implemented by 4/10
GPT-Red: OpenAI LLM Super-Hacker for Adversarial Hardening Press coverage attributes the autonomous hacker / GPT-Red capability line to OpenAI.
+4 growth to · implemented by 3/10
GPT-Red: OpenAI LLM Super-Hacker for Adversarial Hardening OpenAI built GPT-Red as an internal super-hacker sparring partner to harden models including GPT-5.6.
+3 growth to · implements 3/10
GPT-Red: OpenAI LLM Super-Hacker for Adversarial Hardening Tech press coverage ties OpenAI to an autonomous hacker/red-team system for hardening.
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Task horizon doubling Mar 2025
The length of software tasks AI agents can do autonomously at 50% reliability has doubled about every 7 months — and since 2024 closer to every ~3 months.
METR → Benchmarks saturating Apr 2025
In one year scores rose by 18.8, 48.9 and 67.3 points on MMMU, GPQA and SWE-bench; real-world software solve rate jumped from 4.4% to 71.7%.
Stanford HAI — AI Index 2025 → Autonomous coding 2025–2026
On SWE-bench Verified (500 real GitHub issues), autonomous coding agents reached ~80–86% by late 2025, up from under 50% in early 2025.
Epoch AI →