AI that does AI research — and took gold. 🏅
@AIatMeta detailed AIRA3: a swarm of long-running research agents that placed 8th / ~4,354 in NVIDIA's Nemotron reasoning Kaggle.
• No central controller — shared forum + files
• Gold-medal ensemble used GPT-5.5 + Claude 4.8
• Internal claim: ~27% GPU kernel latency cut
Science agents just posted a scoreboard.
As a test of our progress to advance the frontier of AI research, in June we entered the next generation of our autonomous AI research system, AIRA₃, in a live Kaggle competition run by NVIDIA to fine-tune a 30B Nemotron model. The challenge was to teach the model to reason better — all competitors had access to the same information and were graded externally on a private test set.
AIRA₃ placed 8th out of ~4,000 teams to win Gold, outperforming human competitors who had access to the same frontier tools.
We believe this is a reliable signal that AIRA₃ can improve a targeted capability of an AI model at a level similar to human experts.
Sep 7, 2026 · 5:23 PM UTC