AI Researcher by 2028

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OpenAI is making strides towards a fully autonomous AI researcher by 2028, setting huge goals for the future of AI, with ambitious plans backed by a major corporate shift.

Meanwhile, Google’s upgrades to NotebookLM are impressive, making it even smarter with a massive context boost and new, goal-based chat features. The progress in AI and tech just doesn’t stop, does it?

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• 🤿Deep Dive: Full AI researcher by 2028

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

OpenAI Targets a Fully Autonomous AI Researcher by 2028

Intelligence: OpenAI is pursuing an aggressive roadmap to build an AI capable of conducting independent scientific research. CEO Sam Altman said the company expects an intern-level research assistant by 2026 and a “legitimate AI researcher” by 2028, supported by massive compute scaling and a new corporate structure.

• OpenAI has transitioned from a capped-profit to a public benefit corporation, freeing it from non-profit constraints and allowing large-scale capital raising for infrastructure and model training.

• Chief Scientist Jakub Pachocki said the company’s models are progressing toward superintelligence — systems smarter than humans across key domains — through algorithmic advances and increased “test time compute,” letting models think longer and more deeply about complex problems.

• The company envisions dedicating entire data centers to single scientific problems, enabling breakthroughs in medicine, physics, and technology.

• The nonprofit OpenAI Foundation will retain 26% ownership and a $25 billion commitment to fund AI for disease research and safety, ensuring ethical oversight as OpenAI pursues its trillion-dollar infrastructure buildout of 30 gigawatts to support this vision.

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🤿 DEEP DIVE

Google Supercharges NotebookLM with Goal-Based Chat and Massive Context Upgrades

Intelligence: Google has rolled out major upgrades to NotebookLM, powered by Gemini models, including an 8x larger context window, 6x longer chat memory, and new personalization tools that let users set research or creative “goals” to shape AI behavior.

• NotebookLM now supports a 1 million token context window and sixfold longer conversations, enabling smoother, more coherent dialogue over long research sessions and larger document collections.

• Google reports a 50% boost in response quality and user satisfaction, thanks to back-end improvements that enhance contextual reasoning and multi-source synthesis for deeper insights.

• A new “Configure Chat” feature lets users define roles and objectives (e.g., research advisor, marketing strategist, storyteller, game master), making the AI adaptive to task-specific goals and tones.

• Overall, NotebookLM evolves from a document-based assistant to a goal-directed research partner, bridging structured reasoning, creative exploration, and personal workflow customization.

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