OpenBrain

They want to win the twin arms races between China (whose leading company we’ll call “DeepCent”)16 and their US competitors.

The more of their research and development (R&D) cycle they can automate, the faster they can go.

So when OpenBrain finishes training Agent-1, a new model under internal development, it’s good at many things but great at helping with AI research.17 By this point “finishes training” is a bit of a misnomer; models are frequently updated to newer versions trained on additional data or partially re-trained to patch some weaknesses.18