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Chinese researchers chart 5-stage path toward ‘last AI built by humans’

Researchers 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…

By Samantha Johnson / September 14, 2026

Researchers 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.

In a joint paper published on Thursday, researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, outlined a five-stage road map for recursive self-improvement (RSI).

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.

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