# OpenAI reports supervised multi-day research-agent milestone

_Monday, September 7, 2026 at 12:00 AM EDT · AI · Latest · Tier 2 — Notable_

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OpenAI says it has reached an internal automated research intern milestone: a system that can carry out well-defined research assignments estimated to take a skilled researcher several days, under human supervision.

The company says researchers still set priorities and decide which ideas or results to pursue, scale, pause or deploy. Its data shows more than half of successful tasks estimated at four to eight hours involved at least one human intervention. OpenAI calls the milestone an intermediate step and targets an automated AI researcher working under human supervision by March 2028.

## Sources

- [techwireasia.com](https://techwireasia.com/2026/09/openai-ai-research-intern/)

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