The Ouroboros Protocol: When AI Stops Waiting for Instructions and Starts Rewriting Itself
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MiniMax M2.7 didn’t just score on the PhD benchmarks, it prepared for it, alone, over 100 iterations. Here’s why that changes everything. By Shashwata Bhattacharjee | March 2026 | AI Architecture & Systems “All LLM frontier labs will do this. It’s the final boss battle.” - Andrej Karpathy, AutoResearch launch, 2026 The Number That Hides the Story 66.6%. On its surface, that’s just a benchmark score - MiniMax M2.7’s result on OpenAI’s MLE-Bench Lite, a test designed to simulate the research capabilities of a machine learning PhD.