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- 2026-07-23auto-research is moving from benchmarks to real-world loops (agi house)agihousecommunity.beehiiv.com"there is no way to outsource your understanding"; verification-bottleneck framing
- 2026-04-22core automation poaches top anthropic and deepmind talent (ai2work)ai2.workceres model claim via the information; neolab comparison table; "up to $1b" phrasing
- 2026-05-03shopify tangent and the auto-research discourse (ainext)ain3xt.comadjacent discourse: karpathy's "auto-research" term; shopify tangent precedent
- 2026-05core automation seeks funds at $4b valuation (ainvest — flagged unreliable relay)ainvest.comretained as flag: contradictory numbers ($500m–$1b; "late january 2026") — unreliable relay
- 2026-08-13core automation is raising $500m (axios pro)axios"raising up to $500m per sec filing"; "ai continual learning model developer"
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, bi africa editionafrica.businessinsider.comsame bi piece, africa edition
- 2026translated tworek interview (biggo relay)finance.biggo.comsame interview; o1/o3 compute-allocation backstory
- 2026translated tworek interview (btcc relay)btcc.comchinese-media interview relay; "third-generation ai lab"; 30x experiment compression; "company brain"; chess analogy
- 2026-01-07openai reasoning chief jerry tworek quits after 7 years (business today)businesstoday.inexit coverage; "major loss for openai" framing
- 2026-05-08core automation eyes $300m–$500m raise at $4b valuation (dealroom note)app.dealroom.co$300–500m at ~$4b; $100m at $1b closed weeks prior; investors nvidia/spark/accel; cofounders incl. villagra; "isn't close to releasing" a product
- 2026-05ai money keeps flowing — core automation quadruples valuation in weeks (the decoder)the-decoder.com"quadruples valuation in weeks"; models "keep learning after training"
- 2026the psgd optimizer clip (digg tech)diggpsgd optimizer clip; "recovers shampoo"; internal `coreauto` codebase
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, dnyuz republishdnyuz.combi republish
- 2026-04-22ai daily news rundown, april 22 (enoumen)enoumen.substack.comdaily-rundown recap; "an ai to build ai"
- 2026-04-21core automation launch submission by averylamphacker news · avery lampsubmission by cofounder averylamp; 1 point, 0 comments
- 2026-07-28the pacing the frontier hn threadhacker news"pacing the frontier" discussion; 0xdeafbead cites core automation signatories vs. regulatory-capture theory
- 2026-07-29sequoia training data video submissionhacker newssequoia video submission; 2 points, 0 comments
- 2026-09-10continual learning is the next bottleneck — rohan anil (the information bottleneck)the-information-bottleneck.comanil interview; pretrain/rl split as "organizational convenience"; kernel-competition + hiring segments; dolores park origin
- 2026-07training data episode recap (kazuha)kazuha.aiepisode summary; claims "backed by sequoia capital" (unconfirmed)
- 2026-09core automation — linkedin company pagelinkedin~21 employees; key-executive list; sf hq; founded 2026
- 2026-09marksaroufim.commarksaroufim.com · mark saroufimsaroufim: core automation cofounder, pytorch maintainer, gpu mode cofounder
- 2026the neolab raising piles of cash (the microdose)themicrodose.aiskeptic voice: "raising piles of cash without a working product"
- 2026-04-22the openai mafia frame (mk korea)mk.co.kr"openai mafia" frame; o1/o3 provenance; no disclosed business model
- 2026-08-26ai labs are simply cooked — jerry tworek (mts)snipd"ai labs are simply cooked"; three-generations model; 2-year horizon; agents' taste deficit; "company brain"
- 2026the problem with testing ai architectures at small scale (newsfilter transcript)newsfilter.iosmall-scale eval critique; rl needs compute threshold
- 2026-07pacing the frontier — open letterpacingthefrontier.com1,386 frontier-ai employees; requests usg-backed international pacing tools for automated ai development
- 2026core automation (prinzai analysis)prinzai.comdeepest secondary analysis: ceres, 100x less data, post-gradient-descent claim, self-replicating factories/biomachines/terraforming; sutskever 5–20y continual-learning foil; bitter-lesson dilemma
- 2026-09core automation company profile (sacra)sacrafunding recap; monetization speculation; paradigm-timing risk analysis
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — tworek and anil (sequoia training data)youtube · sonya huang and pat gradytworek+anil; transformer-ceiling thesis; codex ~20-min compaction; kernel-generation automation; hosts huang & grady
- 2026jerry tworek is betting that humans are the bottleneck (singularity moments)singularitymoments.com"brilliant and arrogant"; "heard this story a dozen times"; metric-optimization risk
- 2026-07-30core automation form d record (takeoff radar)takeoffradar.comform d: $635,249,754 target; $432,125,053 raised; first sale 2026-07-15
- 2026-05-07the information reports $300m–$500m at ~$4b (techmeme record)techmeme.comthe information $4b report headline + palazzolo "neolab land" quote
- 2026-05-08ex-openai researchers ai startup hits $4b valuation in 6 weeks (testingcatalog)testingcatalog.netrelays the information; single-phase training; "self-replicating factory"/"biological machines" roadmap
- 2026-04-22core automation launches ai lab with top researchers (texxr)texxr.comlaunch aggregation; notes openai's autonomous-research goal as context
- 2026-01openais vp researcher jerry tworek resigns (times of india)timesofindia.indiatimes.comexit memo verbatim; chinchilla/rl-on-robots history
- 2026-01-05openais research lead is departing after nearly seven years (the verge)the vergetworek exit; memo/x post quoted
- 2026-04-22core automation attracts talent from anthropic and google deepmind (viral methods)metodoviral.comlay-audience explainer of "nerdsniped" launch
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, yahoo syndicationfinance.yahoo.combi syndication; adds ehsan amid, avery lamp, julia villagra, sai surya duvvuri
- 2026-07auto-research summit recap (agi house)blog.agihouse.orgauto-research summit recap; open-problems slide; 18 teams
- 2026-07-29jerry tworek deep-dive (agi house)blog.agihouse.orgdeep-dive on tworek keynote/interview — evals, o1→o3, continual learning, founding
- 2026-06-02tilde research open-sources wall attention (ai insiders)aiinsiders.nettilde's wall attention open-sourced
- 2026core automation funding profile (ai market watch)ai-market-watch.com~$532m total claim; jul ~$432m at ~$3.6b post (pitchbook/forge-derived); scribble/threshold also listed
- 2026-09-16ehsan amids research sitesites.google.com · ehsan amidamid bio: ucsc phd 2020 (warmuth), aalto msc, google brain oct 2021–2026 gemini core, joined core apr 2026
- 2026rohan anil bio (teahose)teahose.comanil bio: distinguished engineer deepmind, 1-of-4 gemini pretraining leads, shampoo, anthropic
- 2026-04-22new ai lab core automation nerdsniped researchers from anthropic, google deepmind (business insider)business insiderlaunch-day roster: anil "nerdsniped" quote; gulati quote; jang, villagra, lamp, amid, duvvuri named
- 2025-08openai chief people officer julia villagra leaving (business insider)business insidervillagra's openai exit; reuters' "art, music and storytelling…agi" line
- 2026-07-29training data episode summary (biggo finance)finance.biggo.comepisode summary incl. the "first step to replacing transformers" tweet
- 2026-05core automation targets $4b valuation recap (content.fans)content.fansrecap incl. tworek's ai agenda live sf slot
- 2026-09-16associate general manager program (coreauto.com)coreauto.comassociate general manager internship page — jan–mar 2027, $10k/mo, apply by oct 6, 2026
- 2026-05-27the core automation blogcoreauto.com · core automationcompany blog corpus: five 2026 posts — saroufim on authoring and systems code, the one layer deeper launch and results, amid on neural architecture discovery
- 2026core automation nz / uk — the other namesakescoreautomation.co.nz / coreautomation.co.ukdisambiguation: the nz (formerly sb automation) and uk (est. 2008, body-in-white tooling) namesake firms — unrelated to the 2026 ai lab
- 2026-09-16coreauto.com — company sitecoreauto.comcompany homepage — "world's most automated ai lab," research/approach/vision/team copy
- 2026-09-16core automation, inc. — the 2001 namesakecoreautomation.comdisambiguation: sacramento industrial-automation firm (founded 2001, depew & rozok)
- 2026-01-21he left openai to think bigger — core memory ep. 53corememory.com · ashlee vanceexit interview; q*/strawberry/o1 lineage; big labs "conservative"
- 2026-01-05openai loses top ai researcher jerry tworek after seven years (the decoder)the-decoder.comtworek exits openai; quote "explore types of research that are hard to do at openai"
- 2026-01google caught up because openai stumbled (the decoder)the-decoder.comcore memory recap: agi ~2029; continual learning "one of the last important building blocks"; google catch-up framing
- 2026-04-22ex-openai researcher jerry tworek launches core automation (the decoder)the-decoder.comlaunch coverage; "deep learning research 'is done'"; neo-lab framing
- 2026-01-29two startups want to replace how ai learns (the decoder)the-decoder.compairs core automation w/ flapping airplanes; 100× less data goal; "self-replicating factories…planetary terraforming"
- 2026x bios mirror (digg)diggmirror of x bios (tworek ceo bio; jang "trying to automate my work @coreautoai"; gulati incl. unverified "cofounder adept ai")
- 2026-07-30form d write-up (edgar.tools)app.edgar.toolsfiling-derived write-up of the form d figures
- 2024-09jerry tworek on o1 reasoning (fast company)fast companyo1-era tworek quotes on reasoning
- 2026-07-30core automation, inc. filings (filingflow)filingflow.appform d mirrors/timeline
- undatedjoanne jang profile (forbes)forbesforbes/30u30-style profile quotes
- 2026core automation fundraising profile (fundraisingfox)fundraisingfox.comaggregated filing + the information x-post quotes
- 2026-08-25your showcase primer: core automation (fysk)newsletter.foundersysk.com"20-something people," ~40 by year-end; lamp = fysk lp; sept 16 showcase
- 2026-08-13core automation $500m round listing (gaebler)gaebler.comlabels the filing a "$500m round" (loose reading)
- 2026-09-16kanav garg — linkedinlinkedinco-founder; ex-deepmind (project mariner post, dec 2024)
- 2026-09-16anmol gulati — linkedinlinkedindeepmind roles: mariner/agents tl; gemini 3.0/2.5/2.0 credits; google brain speech
- 2026-09-16anmol gulati — google scholarscholar.google.comgulati publications
- 2026-04-22anmol gulatis launch-day post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · anmol gulatimirror of launch-day post
- 2026-01-28ex-openai researchers startup targets $1b funding (the information)the informationfirst naming of core automation; $500m–$1b seek (paywalled; via decoder)
- 2026-09-16joanne jang — linkedinlinkedinopenai gm dec 2021–apr 2026; labs/model-behavior history; time100 post
- 2026-09-16joannejang.comjoannejang.com · joanne jangpersonal site — stanford cs/applied math
- 2026-09-16avery lamp — linkedinlinkedindeepmind swe-research; adept mts; stealth co-founder
- 2026-09-16avery lamp — resumeaverylamp.me · avery lampmosaicml composer/yahp; google intern 2018
- 2025-10-16how gpt-5 thinks — mad podcast, october 2025youtube"how gpt-5 thinks" — bio chapters (poland, dropping out, trading); "gpt-5 ≈ o3.1"
- 2026-09-16sean mcleish — personal sitemcleish7.github.iosean mcleish (co-author, sep 9 results post) — tilde research intern
- 2026-09-16million integrals — tworeks homepagemillionintegrals.com · jerry tworektworek's self-authored work history (copilot, codex, o1, o3, gpt-5, chatgpt agent)
- 2025-03openai leadership updates, march 2025openaiopenai announcement of villagra's cpo promotion
- 2026-09-16swapnil patil — linkedin (likely match)linkedinlikely match: ex-google ml-systems perf (gemini-on-gpu, rdma clusters, tpu runtime); cmu phd
- 2026joanne jang profile (prometheus)prometheusroot.commodel spec stewardship; oai labs; reservoir samples; jony ive adjacency (reported)
- 2026-09-16aliisa rosenthal — acrew capitalacrewcapital.comacrew gp bio
- 2026-01-22openais former head of sales is entering vc (fortune)fortunerosenthal → acrew gp; openai first commercial hire jun 2022
- 2026-09-16aliisa rosenthal — linkedinlinkedin"$10m→$10b" revenue scaling claims (self-reported)
- 2019-10solving rubiks cube with a robot hand (arxiv 1910.07113)arxiv.org"solving rubik's cube with a robot hand" (tworek co-author)
- 2026-09-16mark saroufim — githubgithubgithub profile — @coreautom/@pytorch/@gpu-mode
- 2026-09-16mark saroufim — linkedinlinkedingpu mode/pytorch work list
- 2026from pytorch to gpu mode — saroufim interviewsnipd"from pytorch to gpu mode" — microsoft→graphcore→pytorch→gpu mode path
- 2026-09-16rohan anil — google scholarscholar.google.comanil publications (gemini, palm, etc.)
- 2026-09-16jerry tworek — google scholarscholar.google.com.sgtworek citation profile
- 2026-08-17avsf – core automation 2026, llc — form d (sec)sec"avsf – core automation 2026, llc" — alumni ventures feeder spv, $2,109,250, 100 investors, first sale 2026-08-03
- 2026-07-30core automation, inc. — form d (sec)secform d: $635,249,754 offering; $432,125,053 sold; $135,252,607 safe conversion; 51 investors; first sale 2026-07-15; officers/directors; 340 brannan st sf
- 2026-07-31sequoia promo post quoting tworek (linkedin)linkedin · sequoia capitalsequoia promo quoting tworek's automation-agency framing
- 2026-07core automation company profile (silicon valley investclub — conflates the 2001 namesake)siliconvalleyinvestclub.comcaplight/forge-sourced table: apr seed $100m @ $1b post; jul $432.125m @ $3.62b post
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — timestamped transcript (teahose)teahose.com · sonya huang and pat gradytimestamped verbatim quotes from the episode
- 2026-04-21core automations first x post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · core automationmirror of company's first x post ("today we're announcing core automation…")
- 2026-04-21tworeks launch post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · jerry tworektworek's launch tweet ("small step for a finger on 'post tweet' button…")
- 2026rohan anil — theorg profiletheorg.comanthropic mts since jun 2025; ucsd ms; bits pilani
- 2026-09-16tilde research — linkedinlinkedin · tilde researchtilde research — 12-person moonshot lab (dhruv pai, mason wang); competition co-host
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — tworek and anil (getpodcast record)getpodcast.com · sonya huang and pat gradysequoia training data ep w/ tworek & anil
- 2026-09-16jerry tworek — linkedinlinkedinopenai roles/dates; independent view (amsterdam) 2015–2018
- 2026ex-openai researcher on why he left — unsupervised learning ep. 81unsupervised-learning.simplecast.comtworek on scaling limits, continual learning, why he left
- 2026-09-08the two years his idea sat unfunded (ecosystem.ai)jayvanzyl.me"two years unfunded" rl-at-openai anecdote
- 2026core automation funding profile (vcbacked)vcbacked.co$100m seed, apr 2026; accel/nvidia/spark
- 2026-09-16julia villagra — linkedinlinkedinopenai cpo jun 2024–oct 2025 (per li text); hrt head of people; "member of the xyz staff"
- 2020jerry tworek speaker bio (warsaw.ai)warsaw.aibio: msc mathematics univ. of warsaw; "first five years of his career in the hedge fund industry"
- undatedjoanne jang speaker bio (womenpm)womenpm.orgbio: google assistant nlu, dropbox; ms cs + bs applied math stanford; joined openai 2021
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.