<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="3.10.0">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://asi-research.com/feed/research.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://asi-research.com/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-07-09T21:43:07+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/feed/research.xml</id><title type="html">ASI Research | Papers</title><subtitle>An independent research map connecting frontier models, self-improving agents, automated AI R&amp;D, scientific discovery, evaluation, and control.</subtitle><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><entry><title type="html">ASI Technical Radar: Compounding Intelligence</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/technical-reading-list/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ASI Technical Radar: Compounding Intelligence" /><published>2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/technical-reading-list</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/technical-reading-list/"><![CDATA[<p>This radar organizes the current ASI literature and frontier-lab releases
around one claim: superintelligence is less likely to arrive as a single
artifact than as a stack of compounding loops. Models write code, code
evaluates models, agents design stronger agents, and scientific workflows
become cheaper, faster, and more parallel.</p>

<h2 id="north-star">North star</h2>

<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2606.12683">From AGI to ASI</a> is the best current
orientation document. It frames the transition from AGI to artificial general
superintelligence around four pathways: scaling AGI, AI paradigm shifts,
recursive improvement, and large-scale multi-agent collectives.</p>

<h2 id="core-technical-clusters">Core technical clusters</h2>

<ul>
  <li><strong>Recursive self-improvement:</strong> Darwin Godel Machine, Hyperagents, Huxley-Godel Machine, and MetaAI recursive self-design.</li>
  <li><strong>Automated AI R&amp;D:</strong> AI Scientist, Live-SWE-agent, CodeEvolve, AlphaEvolve, AIRA, AutoResearchClaw, Co-Scientist, Claude Science, and Gemini for Science.</li>
  <li><strong>Frontier model drops:</strong> GPT-5.6 Sol, Claude Fable 5, Claude Sonnet 5, Gemini 3.5 Flash, Antigravity Agent, Gemini Omni Flash, and Llama 4.</li>
  <li><strong>Evaluation-grounded discovery:</strong> systems that accept only changes validated by tests, benchmarks, proof checks, simulations, or domain evaluators.</li>
  <li><strong>Collective intelligence:</strong> ensembles of specialized agents that produce stronger search, review, repair, and synthesis than a single prompt loop.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="build-pattern">Build pattern</h2>

<p>The practical pattern across these papers is simple:</p>

<div class="language-python highlighter-rouge"><div class="highlight"><pre class="highlight"><code><span class="n">archive</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">seed_systems</span><span class="p">()</span>
<span class="k">while</span> <span class="n">budget</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">remaining</span><span class="p">():</span>
    <span class="n">parent</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">select_promising_or_diverse</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">archive</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">proposal</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">model</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">modify</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">parent</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">code</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">parent</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">logs</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">objective</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="n">score</span> <span class="o">=</span> <span class="n">evaluate_in_sandbox</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">proposal</span><span class="p">)</span>
    <span class="k">if</span> <span class="n">score</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">valid</span> <span class="ow">and</span> <span class="n">score</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">beats_acceptance_bar</span><span class="p">:</span>
        <span class="n">archive</span><span class="p">.</span><span class="n">add</span><span class="p">(</span><span class="n">proposal</span><span class="p">,</span> <span class="n">score</span><span class="p">)</span>
</code></pre></div></div>

<p>The hard research problems are not the loop syntax. They are evaluator design,
sample efficiency, transfer across domains, keeping the search open-ended, and
making the resulting systems inspectable enough for deployment.</p>

<h2 id="current-priority">Current priority</h2>

<p>Treat every entry in this library as a component in an ASI research stack:
scaling tells us what raw capability can buy, automated R&amp;D shows how progress
can compound, model drops reveal what labs are productizing, and governance
measurement keeps that acceleration legible.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[This radar organizes the current ASI literature and frontier-lab releases around one claim: superintelligence is less likely to arrive as a single artifact than as a stack of compounding loops. Models write code, code evaluates models, agents design stronger agents, and scientific workflows become cheaper, faster, and more parallel.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Notes Toward Sensible ASI Governance</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/governance-notes/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Notes Toward Sensible ASI Governance" /><published>2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-07-06T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/governance-notes</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/governance-notes/"><![CDATA[<p>The premise of this track is pro-progress: ambitious technology scales fastest
when it earns trust. Aviation, vaccines, cars, semiconductors, and cloud
infrastructure all moved from invention to civilization-scale deployment
through measurement, standards, audits, and fast feedback from incidents.</p>

<p>ASI governance should be judged by the same standard. It should increase the
rate at which capable systems can be shipped responsibly, not turn uncertainty
into paralysis.</p>

<h2 id="working-mechanisms">Working mechanisms</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Capability evaluations tied to concrete deployment thresholds.</li>
  <li>Incident reporting that improves engineering practice without becoming a theater of blame.</li>
  <li>Secure sandboxes for self-improving systems that execute generated code.</li>
  <li>Third-party measurement of AI R&amp;D automation, including researcher time allocation, AI-authored code share, and oversight capacity.</li>
  <li>Standards for model-generated scientific claims: executable artifacts, review logs, benchmark traces, and reproduction packages.</li>
  <li>Agent-control layers: sandboxing, permissioning, monitoring, intervention, and incident response for models that can use tools over long horizons.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="current-anchor">Current anchor</h2>

<p><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2603.03992">Measuring AI R&amp;D Automation</a> is the most
useful current governance paper in this library because it treats acceleration
as something to measure. If AI begins performing a large share of AI research,
institutions need live telemetry on both capability progress and oversight
capacity.</p>

<h2 id="new-anchors">New anchors</h2>

<p><a href="/library/openai-lifescibench/">LifeSciBench</a> and
<a href="/library/openai-genebench-pro/">GeneBench-Pro</a> point
toward domain-grounded scientific evaluations. The
<a href="/library/google-ai-control-roadmap/">Google DeepMind AI Control Roadmap</a>
and <a href="/library/openai-third-party-evals-playbook/">OpenAI third-party evaluation playbook</a>
point toward the deployment side: harness design, supervision, controls, and
evidence trails for agentic systems.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[The premise of this track is pro-progress: ambitious technology scales fastest when it earns trust. Aviation, vaccines, cars, semiconductors, and cloud infrastructure all moved from invention to civilization-scale deployment through measurement, standards, audits, and fast feedback from incidents.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">GeneBench-Pro</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-genebench-pro/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="GeneBench-Pro" /><published>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/openai-genebench-pro</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-genebench-pro/"><![CDATA[<p>GeneBench-Pro is a useful frontier benchmark because it shifts evaluation
toward real scientific work rather than short biology trivia. It is designed to
test whether models can operate on complex genomics, biology, and research
datasets.</p>

<h2 id="what-to-watch">What to watch</h2>

<p>The key ASI question is whether stronger models can turn longer context,
code execution, and domain reasoning into reliable biological discovery. A
benchmark like this is most valuable when it rewards reproducible analysis
steps, defensible intermediate artifacts, and error recovery.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>Scientific superintelligence needs better measurement than “can answer a hard
question.” GeneBench-Pro points toward evals where a system must make progress
through messy data, domain assumptions, and multi-step analytical workflows.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[GeneBench-Pro is a useful frontier benchmark because it shifts evaluation toward real scientific work rather than short biology trivia. It is designed to test whether models can operate on complex genomics, biology, and research datasets.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Gemini Omni Flash</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/google-gemini-omni-flash/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Gemini Omni Flash" /><published>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/google-gemini-omni-flash</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/google-gemini-omni-flash/"><![CDATA[<p>Gemini Omni Flash is not an ASI paper, but it matters to the capability map. It
is a high-speed multimodal generation model that can create short 720p videos
from text, animate still images, and refine outputs conversationally.</p>

<h2 id="why-it-belongs-here">Why it belongs here</h2>

<p>ASI systems will not be text-only. Video, audio, simulation, world models, and
interactive editing all contribute to agents that can model environments,
communicate plans, and test ideas visually.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>The important signal is a shift toward “any input to any output” systems with
iterative editing loops. That is a foundation for simulation-rich scientific,
robotic, and design workflows.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Gemini Omni Flash is not an ASI paper, but it matters to the capability map. It is a high-speed multimodal generation model that can create short 720p videos from text, animate still images, and refine outputs conversationally.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Claude Science</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-science/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Claude Science" /><published>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-science</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-science/"><![CDATA[<p>Claude Science is another signal that AI science is becoming an application
surface. Anthropic frames it as an app that integrates commonly used research
tools and packages, produces auditable artifacts, and provides flexible compute
access.</p>

<h2 id="why-it-matters">Why it matters</h2>

<p>The important word is “auditable.” Scientific agents need source code, message
history, data provenance, and human-readable explanations if they are going to
be trusted in real research workflows.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>AI workbenches are where frontier models meet reproducibility. The systems
that matter most will not merely answer questions; they will leave trails that
other scientists and agents can inspect, rerun, and improve.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Claude Science is another signal that AI science is becoming an application surface. Anthropic frames it as an app that integrates commonly used research tools and packages, produces auditable artifacts, and provides flexible compute access.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, and Sonnet 5</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-fable-mythos-sonnet-5/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Claude Fable 5, Mythos 5, and Sonnet 5" /><published>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-30T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-fable-mythos-sonnet-5</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/anthropic-claude-fable-mythos-sonnet-5/"><![CDATA[<p>Anthropic’s current model table is a useful snapshot of the agentic frontier.
It describes Claude Fable 5 as next-generation intelligence for long-running
agents, Opus 4.8 for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, and Sonnet 5
as the best speed-intelligence combination.</p>

<h2 id="deployment-signal">Deployment signal</h2>

<p>The model overview also notes that Claude Mythos 5 and Mythos Preview are
offered separately for defensive cybersecurity workflows through Project
Glasswing, with invitation-only access.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>The market is segmenting by capability, risk, and workflow. Long-running
agents, coding agents, and restricted cybersecurity models are now distinct
deployment categories rather than abstract benchmark tiers.</p>

<p>Source trail: Anthropic posted about Fable and Mythos access on
<a href="https://x.com/AnthropicAI/status/2072163884430229756">X</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Anthropic’s current model table is a useful snapshot of the agentic frontier. It describes Claude Fable 5 as next-generation intelligence for long-running agents, Opus 4.8 for complex agentic coding and enterprise work, and Sonnet 5 as the best speed-intelligence combination.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">GPT-5.6 Sol Preview</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-gpt-56-sol/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="GPT-5.6 Sol Preview" /><published>2026-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/openai-gpt-56-sol</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-gpt-56-sol/"><![CDATA[<p>GPT-5.6 Sol belongs in the library because the release is explicitly framed
around long-horizon work. OpenAI describes a new <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">max</code> reasoning effort for Sol
and an <code class="language-plaintext highlighter-rouge">ultra</code> mode that uses subagents for complex work.</p>

<h2 id="signals-to-track">Signals to track</h2>

<ul>
  <li>Agentic coding: OpenAI reports a new state of the art on Terminal-Bench 2.1.</li>
  <li>Scientific work: the post reports stronger GeneBench results than GPT-5.5
while using fewer tokens.</li>
  <li>Productization: the family separates flagship capability, balanced cost, and
fast inference into Sol, Terra, and Luna.</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>This is a frontier-model drop where the interesting feature is not just answer
quality. It is the shift toward models that budget deeper reasoning, coordinate
subagents, and operate inside tool-heavy workflows. Those are exactly the
ingredients that make AI R&amp;D automation compound.</p>

<p>Source trail: OpenAI also announced the preview on
<a href="https://x.com/OpenAI/status/2070555272230384038">X</a>.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[GPT-5.6 Sol belongs in the library because the release is explicitly framed around long-horizon work. OpenAI describes a new max reasoning effort for Sol and an ultra mode that uses subagents for complex work.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">ImprovEvolve: Basin-Hopping Meets LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/improvevolve/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="ImprovEvolve: Basin-Hopping Meets LLM-Guided Evolutionary Search" /><published>2026-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-26T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/improvevolve</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/improvevolve/"><![CDATA[<p>ImprovEvolve is a useful refinement of the AlphaEvolve pattern. Instead of
asking an LLM to evolve one monolithic optimizer, it evolves specialized
operators for initialization, local improvement, and perturbation.</p>

<h2 id="results-to-watch">Results to watch</h2>

<p>The paper reports new state-of-the-art packings for multiple hexagon-in-hexagon
cases, a stronger lower bound for the second autocorrelation inequality, and
improvements for many spherical-code instances.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>The big lesson is cognitive load management. If we want LLM-guided search to
scale, we may need decomposed operator libraries rather than heroic single-shot
program synthesis.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[ImprovEvolve is a useful refinement of the AlphaEvolve pattern. Instead of asking an LLM to evolve one monolithic optimizer, it evolves specialized operators for initialization, local improvement, and perturbation.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">Google DeepMind AI Control Roadmap</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/google-ai-control-roadmap/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Google DeepMind AI Control Roadmap" /><published>2026-06-23T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-23T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/google-ai-control-roadmap</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/google-ai-control-roadmap/"><![CDATA[<p>Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap is a governance entry because it treats
advanced agents as systems that need layered control, not just aligned model
weights.</p>

<h2 id="control-model">Control model</h2>

<p>The roadmap combines sandboxing, endpoint security, prompt-injection
resistance, model alignment, monitoring, prevention, and response. It maps
security protocols to capability levels, including detection evasion and attack
execution.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>Self-improving and tool-using agents will need permissioning, monitoring, and
graduated access. A control roadmap is one way to let capability scale while
keeping deployment incremental and auditable.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[Google DeepMind’s AI Control Roadmap is a governance entry because it treats advanced agents as systems that need layered control, not just aligned model weights.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry><entry><title type="html">LifeSciBench</title><link href="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-lifescibench/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="LifeSciBench" /><published>2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-17T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://asi-research.com/library/openai-lifescibench</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://asi-research.com/library/openai-lifescibench/"><![CDATA[<p>LifeSciBench is governance infrastructure for AI science. OpenAI describes it
as 750 expert-authored tasks spanning seven workflows and seven biological
domains, grounded in practicing life scientists’ judgment.</p>

<h2 id="why-it-matters">Why it matters</h2>

<p>Frontier systems are increasingly evaluated as agents rather than chat models.
Life-science deployment needs benchmarks that measure evidence handling,
analysis, design, validation, translation, and scientific communication across
realistic artifacts.</p>

<h2 id="asi-relevance">ASI relevance</h2>

<p>If AI systems begin accelerating biology, the bottleneck becomes trustworthy
measurement. Benchmarks like LifeSciBench help separate fluent scientific
language from systems that can support actual research decisions.</p>]]></content><author><name>ASI Research</name></author><summary type="html"><![CDATA[LifeSciBench is governance infrastructure for AI science. OpenAI describes it as 750 expert-authored tasks spanning seven workflows and seven biological domains, grounded in practicing life scientists’ judgment.]]></summary><media:thumbnail xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" /><media:content medium="image" url="https://asi-research.com/assets/img/og-asi-research.png" xmlns:media="http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/" /></entry></feed>