Automating AI research has emerged as a battleground, though US firms have an early lead due to superior access to compute resources
2-MIN READ2-MIN ListenMinxiao Changin ShenzhenPublished: 9:30pm, 14 Sep 2026Updated: 9:31pm, 14 Sep 2026Researchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention.
The study, titled “The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement”, highlights a growing industry focus on automating the labour-intensive life cycle of training, evaluating, and fine-tuning AI models.
