TAI #195: GPT-5.4 and the Arrival of AI Self-Improvement?

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Also, Gemini 3.1 Flash-Lite, Karpathy’s Autoresearch, Qwen 3.5 Small, Copilot Cowork & What happened this week in AI by Louie Two stories dominated this week that look unrelated but tell the same story. On Wednesday, OpenAI released GPT-5.4, its most work-oriented frontier model to date. On Sunday, Andrej Karpathy posted results from his autoresearch experiment, showing that AI agents can autonomously find real, transferable improvements to neural network