OpenAI may be working on AI that can perform research without human help – which should go fine

OpenAI is developing a new project to enhance its AI models’ reasoning capabilities, called “Strawberry,” according to documents first discovered by Reuters. The project is a key element in the efforts by OpenAI to achieve more powerful AI models capable of operating on their own when it comes to performing research.

According to the internal documents Reuters looked at, Strawberry is aimed at building an AI that will not only answer questions but search around online and perform follow-up research on its own. This so-called “deep research” trick would be a major leap beyond current AI models that rely on existing data sets and respond in ways that are already programmed.