Can AI train itself to make it better? That is the question taking the internet by storm in 2026. Several AI researchers and experts have predicted that soon, the big tech giants will create agents that can surpass human intelligence and work upon themselves. Adding the latest chapter to the new era of artificial intelligence, Andrej Karpathy, the former director of AI at Tesla and researcher at OpenAI, revealed that an autonomous AI agent managed to improve its own experimental language model.

AI Model Tested To Train Itself

Karpathy stated in a post on X on Tuesday that he ran an autoresearch AI agent on his project called NanoChat, which is a small language model experiment. Without any human intervention, the AI agent tested hundreds of possible modifications and found enhancements that could improve the model training efficiency by 11%. For a time period of two days, the AI evaluated over 700 potential changes to the model’s training setup.

AI Completes The Research By Its Own

Karpathy mentions that the AI agent performed the research loop without any human intervention. Usually,AI researchersmanually start the experiments by proposing ideas and measuring the validation loss. However, this research agent copied the process on its own by analaysing the previous experimental results and planned the next set of tests.

“This is the bread and butter of what I do daily for two decades,” Karpathy noted. He added that watching an AI agent perform a similar task on its own was ‘wild’.

According to Karpathy, the AI discovered a few technical adjustments that needed improvement in the training pipeline. He stated that the AI agent found his parameterless Qknorm lacked a scaling multiplier, which eventually impacted the attention patterns.

Moreover, Karpathy used the “Time to GPT-2” measure to track his improvements. This means that theAIagent can take and compare to reach the performance of GPT-2. After finalising the agent’s optimisations, the training time reduced from 2.02 hours to 1.80 hours, stated Karpathy.

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