Expect big AI capability improvements via recursive self-improvement over next few weeks

Expect big AI capability improvements via recursive self-improvement over next few weeks | So expect big things over the next few weeks. We're capability jumps in weeks not quarters.

So expect big things over the next few weeks. We're capability jumps in weeks not quarters.

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  "qty": "orders of magnitude improvement in capability density by parameter",
  "url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dmtvGKuRE64",
  "mode": "PREDICTION",
  "role": "Host",
  "context": "we're starting even over the past week or two, we're getting into the era when you can get smarter, better, faster models by asking a previous model just emit the weights, the parameters directly for a successor model and you can get orders of magnitude improvement in terms of capability density by by parameter. So expect big things over the next few weeks.",
  "to_year": 2026,
  "verbatim": "So expect big things over the next few weeks. We're capability jumps in weeks not quarters.",
  "conv_cues": "expect big things",
  "direction": "HAPPEN",
  "from_year": 2026,
  "timeframe": "Next few weeks (March-April 2026)",
  "conv_level": "HIGH",
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      "label": "OpenAI's GPT-5.5 trained at Stargate Abilene with internal AI assistance",
      "source": "https://openai.com/index/building-the-compute-infrastructure-for-the-intelligence-age/ — OpenAI infrastructure announcement",
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      "weight": 0.4,
      "ordinal": -10,
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      "confidence": 0.85,
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      "expected_date": "2026-02-15",
      "miss_emitted_at": "2026-05-02T22:07:21.384228+00:00",
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      "research_origin": "deep_research",
      "measurement_criterion": "OpenAI publicly confirms GPT-5.5 was trained at the flagship Stargate Abilene site with significant AI-assisted training/debugging contributions, citing recursive self-improvement loop language"
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      "kind": "llm_pre_event",
      "label": "Anthropic publicly states most code now written by AI",
      "source": "https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3680937611062920 — Silicon Valley Article on AI Singularity",
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      "weight": 0.4,
      "ordinal": -9,
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      "source_url": "https://eu.36kr.com/en/p/3680937611062920",
      "expected_date": "2026-02-28",
      "miss_emitted_at": "2026-05-02T22:07:21.384228+00:00",
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      "kind": "llm_pre_event",
      "label": "Major frontier model release cluster (Feb-Mar 2026)",
      "source": "https://blog.mean.ceo/new-ai-model-releases-news-april-2026/ — AI model release roundup",
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      "ordinal": -8,
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      "source_url": "https://blog.mean.ceo/new-ai-model-releases-news-april-2026/",
      "expected_date": "2026-03-02",
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      "label": "GPT-5.4 sets new computer-use benchmark record",
      "source": "https://kersai.com/ai-breakthroughs-in-2026-march-update/ — March 2026 AI breakthroughs",
      "status": "overdue",
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      "expected_date": "2026-03-05",
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