{"id":272665,"date":"2026-02-07T18:07:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:07:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272665\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T18:07:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T18:07:09","slug":"openais-latest-ai-was-created-using-itself-company-claims","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/272665\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI’s Latest AI Was Created Using “Itself,” Company Claims"},"content":{"rendered":"

On Thursday, OpenAI announced<\/a> GPT-5.3-Codex, a new coding model that\u2019s purportedly 25 percent faster than its predecessor, along with other impressive benchmarks.<\/p>\n

The real head-turner, however, is another claim the Sam Altman-led company made about its development. GPT-5.3-Codex, supposedly, is its first model \u201cthat was instrumental in creating itself,\u201d with its team \u201cblown away\u201d by the results.<\/p>\n

Is the Singularity nearly upon us? Is this the long-awaited sign of recursive self-improvement, a point at which the machines are finally able to continually rewrite their own code to transform themselves into superior beings?<\/p>\n

Not quite. In less sensational wording, OpenAI restates the AI\u2019s role as being used to \u201caccelerate its own development.\u201d What that looked like, according to the blog post, is that \u201cthe Codex team used early versions to debug its own training, manage its own deployment, and diagnose test results and evaluations.\u201d<\/p>\n

In other words,\u00a0GPT-5.3.-Codex helped the human coders with some of their tasks \u2014 impressive, maybe, but hardly a sign of humankind\u2019s immediate obsolescence.<\/p>\n

The imaginations of AI boosters, nonetheless, went into overdrive. The responses to a post on the r\/singularity subreddit about the news<\/a> were filled with a mixture of doom-tinged hype, hype-tinged doom, and a good deal of gallows humor. \u201cI hope everyone remembers how good a mid level manager I was before the machines came,\u201d one user wrote. The sentiment extended to X. \u201cHoly moly \u2014 so it begins!\u201d tweeted<\/a> another user, who runs an AI newsletter.<\/p>\n

Taken together, it\u2019s a sign of how the discourse around AI is still dominated by sci-fi concepts and rhetoric and distorted by hype. AI companies have been more than occasionally guilty of stoking the flames. Last month, the head of Anthropic\u2019s Claude Code Boris Cherny claimed<\/a> that \u201cpretty much\u201d 100 percent of the company\u2019s code is now AI-generated using its own model. What this actually looks like behind the scenes, though, remains hazy. And it\u2019s still far removed from the idea of AI models building new models completely autonomously.<\/p>\n

Anthropic, regardless, isn\u2019t alone. With the new Codex release, Altman \u2014 who\u2019s been on an emotional rollercoaster as of late<\/a> \u2014 added to the pile with a sob story about how his coding tool was so good that it made him depressed.<\/p>\n

\u201cI built an app with Codex last week. It was very fun,\u201d Altman tweeted<\/a>. \u201cThen I started asking it for ideas for new features and at least a couple of them were better than I was thinking of. I felt a little useless and it was sad.\u201d Who said the \u201cvibe\u201d in \u201cvibe-coding\u201d had to be good?<\/p>\n

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