Original source occurrences

1. auto-research is moving from benchmarks to real-world loops (agi house) · agihousecommunity.beehiiv.com · 2026-07-23 (day) · original ID: src-ci-agihouse-beehiiv · Other public citations of this URL

   "there is no way to outsource your understanding"; verification-bottleneck framing

2. core automation poaches top anthropic and deepmind talent (ai2work) · ai2.work · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-ai2work · Other public citations of this URL

   ceres model claim via the information; neolab comparison table; "up to $1b" phrasing

3. shopify tangent and the auto-research discourse (ainext) · ain3xt.com · 2026-05-03 (day) · original ID: src-ci-ainext-tangent · Other public citations of this URL

   adjacent discourse: karpathy's "auto-research" term; shopify tangent precedent

4. core automation seeks funds at $4b valuation (ainvest — flagged unreliable relay) · ainvest.com · 2026-05 (month) · original ID: src-ci-ainvest · Other public citations of this URL

   retained as flag: contradictory numbers ($500m–$1b; "late january 2026") — unreliable relay

5. core automation is raising $500m (axios pro) · axios · 2026-08-13 (day) · original ID: src-ci-axios-500m · Other public citations of this URL

   "raising up to $500m per sec filing"; "ai continual learning model developer"

6. the nerdsniped launch story, bi africa edition · africa.businessinsider.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-bi-africa · Other public citations of this URL

   same bi piece, africa edition

7. translated tworek interview (biggo relay) · finance.biggo.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-biggo-interview · Other public citations of this URL

   same interview; o1/o3 compute-allocation backstory

8. translated tworek interview (btcc relay) · btcc.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-btcc-interview · Other public citations of this URL

   chinese-media interview relay; "third-generation ai lab"; 30x experiment compression; "company brain"; chess analogy

9. openai reasoning chief jerry tworek quits after 7 years (business today) · businesstoday.in · 2026-01-07 (day) · original ID: src-ci-businesstoday · Other public citations of this URL

   exit coverage; "major loss for openai" framing

10. core automation eyes $300m–$500m raise at $4b valuation (dealroom note) · app.dealroom.co · 2026-05-08 (day) · original ID: src-ci-dealroom-4b · Other public citations of this URL

    $300–500m at ~$4b; $100m at $1b closed weeks prior; investors nvidia/spark/accel; cofounders incl. villagra; "isn't close to releasing" a product

11. ai money keeps flowing — core automation quadruples valuation in weeks (the decoder) · the-decoder.com · 2026-05 (month) · original ID: src-ci-decoder-deepseek · Other public citations of this URL

    "quadruples valuation in weeks"; models "keep learning after training"

12. the psgd optimizer clip (digg tech) · digg · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-digg-psgd · Other public citations of this URL

    psgd optimizer clip; "recovers shampoo"; internal `coreauto` codebase

13. the nerdsniped launch story, dnyuz republish · dnyuz.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-dnyuz · Other public citations of this URL

    bi republish

14. ai daily news rundown, april 22 (enoumen) · enoumen.substack.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-enoumen · Other public citations of this URL

    daily-rundown recap; "an ai to build ai"

15. core automation launch submission by averylamp · hacker news · 2026-04-21 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-launch · Other public citations of this URL · avery lamp

    submission by cofounder averylamp; 1 point, 0 comments

16. the pacing the frontier hn thread · hacker news · 2026-07-28 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-pacing · Other public citations of this URL

    "pacing the frontier" discussion; 0xdeafbead cites core automation signatories vs. regulatory-capture theory

17. sequoia training data video submission · hacker news · 2026-07-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-hn-sequoia · Other public citations of this URL

    sequoia video submission; 2 points, 0 comments

18. continual learning is the next bottleneck — rohan anil (the information bottleneck) · the-information-bottleneck.com · 2026-09-10 (day) · original ID: src-ci-infobottleneck-anil · Other public citations of this URL

    anil interview; pretrain/rl split as "organizational convenience"; kernel-competition + hiring segments; dolores park origin

19. training data episode recap (kazuha) · kazuha.ai · 2026-07 (month) · original ID: src-ci-kazuha-sequoia · Other public citations of this URL

    episode summary; claims "backed by sequoia capital" (unconfirmed)

20. core automation — linkedin company page · linkedin · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-ci-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    ~21 employees; key-executive list; sf hq; founded 2026

21. marksaroufim.com · marksaroufim.com · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-ci-marksaroufim · Other public citations of this URL · mark saroufim

    saroufim: core automation cofounder, pytorch maintainer, gpu mode cofounder

22. the neolab raising piles of cash (the microdose) · themicrodose.ai · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-microdose · Other public citations of this URL

    skeptic voice: "raising piles of cash without a working product"

23. the openai mafia frame (mk korea) · mk.co.kr · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-mk-openai-mafia · Other public citations of this URL

    "openai mafia" frame; o1/o3 provenance; no disclosed business model

24. ai labs are simply cooked — jerry tworek (mts) · snipd · 2026-08-26 (day) · original ID: src-ci-mts-podcast · Other public citations of this URL

    "ai labs are simply cooked"; three-generations model; 2-year horizon; agents' taste deficit; "company brain"

25. the problem with testing ai architectures at small scale (newsfilter transcript) · newsfilter.io · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-newsfilter-transcript · Other public citations of this URL

    small-scale eval critique; rl needs compute threshold

26. pacing the frontier — open letter · pacingthefrontier.com · 2026-07 (month) · original ID: src-ci-pacing-frontier · Other public citations of this URL

    1,386 frontier-ai employees; requests usg-backed international pacing tools for automated ai development

27. core automation (prinzai analysis) · prinzai.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-prinzai · Other public citations of this URL

    deepest secondary analysis: ceres, 100x less data, post-gradient-descent claim, self-replicating factories/biomachines/terraforming; sutskever 5–20y continual-learning foil; bitter-lesson dilemma

28. core automation company profile (sacra) · sacra · 2026-09 (month) · original ID: src-ci-sacra · Other public citations of this URL

    funding recap; monetization speculation; paradigm-timing risk analysis

29. building the automated agi lab — tworek and anil (sequoia training data) · youtube · 2026-07-29 (day) · original ID: src-ci-sequoia-podcast · Other public citations of this URL · sonya huang and pat grady

    tworek+anil; transformer-ceiling thesis; codex ~20-min compaction; kernel-generation automation; hosts huang & grady

30. jerry tworek is betting that humans are the bottleneck (singularity moments) · singularitymoments.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-ci-singularitymoments · Other public citations of this URL

    "brilliant and arrogant"; "heard this story a dozen times"; metric-optimization risk

31. core automation form d record (takeoff radar) · takeoffradar.com · 2026-07-30 (day) · original ID: src-ci-takeoffradar-formd · Other public citations of this URL

    form d: $635,249,754 target; $432,125,053 raised; first sale 2026-07-15

32. the information reports $300m–$500m at ~$4b (techmeme record) · techmeme.com · 2026-05-07 (day) · original ID: src-ci-techmeme-4b · Other public citations of this URL

    the information $4b report headline + palazzolo "neolab land" quote

33. ex-openai researchers ai startup hits $4b valuation in 6 weeks (testingcatalog) · testingcatalog.net · 2026-05-08 (day) · original ID: src-ci-testingcatalog-4b · Other public citations of this URL

    relays the information; single-phase training; "self-replicating factory"/"biological machines" roadmap

34. core automation launches ai lab with top researchers (texxr) · texxr.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-texxr-launch · Other public citations of this URL

    launch aggregation; notes openai's autonomous-research goal as context

35. openais vp researcher jerry tworek resigns (times of india) · timesofindia.indiatimes.com · 2026-01 (month) · original ID: src-ci-timesofindia · Other public citations of this URL

    exit memo verbatim; chinchilla/rl-on-robots history

36. openais research lead is departing after nearly seven years (the verge) · the verge · 2026-01-05 (day) · original ID: src-ci-verge-departure · Other public citations of this URL

    tworek exit; memo/x post quoted

37. core automation attracts talent from anthropic and google deepmind (viral methods) · metodoviral.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-viralmethods · Other public citations of this URL

    lay-audience explainer of "nerdsniped" launch

38. the nerdsniped launch story, yahoo syndication · finance.yahoo.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-ci-yahoo-nerdsniped · Other public citations of this URL

    bi syndication; adds ehsan amid, avery lamp, julia villagra, sai surya duvvuri

39. auto-research summit recap (agi house) · blog.agihouse.org · 2026-07 (month) · original ID: src-hp-agihouse-recap · Other public citations of this URL

    auto-research summit recap; open-problems slide; 18 teams

40. jerry tworek deep-dive (agi house) · blog.agihouse.org · 2026-07-29 (day) · original ID: src-hp-agihouse-tworek · Other public citations of this URL

    deep-dive on tworek keynote/interview — evals, o1→o3, continual learning, founding

41. tilde research open-sources wall attention (ai insiders) · aiinsiders.net · 2026-06-02 (day) · original ID: src-hp-aiinsiders-tilde · Other public citations of this URL

    tilde's wall attention open-sourced

42. core automation funding profile (ai market watch) · ai-market-watch.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-aimarketwatch · Other public citations of this URL

    ~$532m total claim; jul ~$432m at ~$3.6b post (pitchbook/forge-derived); scribble/threshold also listed

43. ehsan amids research site · sites.google.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-amid-site · Other public citations of this URL · ehsan amid

    amid bio: ucsc phd 2020 (warmuth), aalto msc, google brain oct 2021–2026 gemini core, joined core apr 2026

44. rohan anil bio (teahose) · teahose.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-anil-teahose · Other public citations of this URL

    anil bio: distinguished engineer deepmind, 1-of-4 gemini pretraining leads, shampoo, anthropic

45. new ai lab core automation nerdsniped researchers from anthropic, google deepmind (business insider) · business insider · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-hp-bi-nerdsniped · Other public citations of this URL

    launch-day roster: anil "nerdsniped" quote; gulati quote; jang, villagra, lamp, amid, duvvuri named

46. openai chief people officer julia villagra leaving (business insider) · business insider · 2025-08 (month) · original ID: src-hp-bi-villagra · Other public citations of this URL

    villagra's openai exit; reuters' "art, music and storytelling…agi" line

47. training data episode summary (biggo finance) · finance.biggo.com · 2026-07-29 (day) · original ID: src-hp-biggo-summary · Other public citations of this URL

    episode summary incl. the "first step to replacing transformers" tweet

48. core automation targets $4b valuation recap (content.fans) · content.fans · 2026-05 (month) · original ID: src-hp-contentfans · Other public citations of this URL

    recap incl. tworek's ai agenda live sf slot

49. associate general manager program (coreauto.com) · coreauto.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-coreauto-agm · Other public citations of this URL

    associate general manager internship page — jan–mar 2027, $10k/mo, apply by oct 6, 2026

50. the core automation blog · coreauto.com · 2026-05-27 (day) · original ID: src-hp-coreauto-blog-data · Other public citations of this URL · core automation

    company blog corpus: five 2026 posts — saroufim on authoring and systems code, the one layer deeper launch and results, amid on neural architecture discovery

51. core automation nz / uk — the other namesakes · coreautomation.co.nz / coreautomation.co.uk · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-coreauto-others · Other public citations of this URL

    disambiguation: the nz (formerly sb automation) and uk (est. 2008, body-in-white tooling) namesake firms — unrelated to the 2026 ai lab

52. coreauto.com — company site · coreauto.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-coreauto-site · Other public citations of this URL

    company homepage — "world's most automated ai lab," research/approach/vision/team copy

53. core automation, inc. — the 2001 namesake · coreautomation.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-coreautomation-inc · Other public citations of this URL

    disambiguation: sacramento industrial-automation firm (founded 2001, depew & rozok)

54. he left openai to think bigger — core memory ep. 53 · corememory.com · 2026-01-21 (day) · original ID: src-hp-corememory-ep53 · Other public citations of this URL · ashlee vance

    exit interview; q*/strawberry/o1 lineage; big labs "conservative"

55. openai loses top ai researcher jerry tworek after seven years (the decoder) · the-decoder.com · 2026-01-05 (day) · original ID: src-hp-decoder-departure · Other public citations of this URL

    tworek exits openai; quote "explore types of research that are hard to do at openai"

56. google caught up because openai stumbled (the decoder) · the-decoder.com · 2026-01 (month) · original ID: src-hp-decoder-google · Other public citations of this URL

    core memory recap: agi ~2029; continual learning "one of the last important building blocks"; google catch-up framing

57. ex-openai researcher jerry tworek launches core automation (the decoder) · the-decoder.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-hp-decoder-launch · Other public citations of this URL

    launch coverage; "deep learning research 'is done'"; neo-lab framing

58. two startups want to replace how ai learns (the decoder) · the-decoder.com · 2026-01-29 (day) · original ID: src-hp-decoder-two-startups · Other public citations of this URL

    pairs core automation w/ flapping airplanes; 100× less data goal; "self-replicating factories…planetary terraforming"

59. x bios mirror (digg) · digg · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-digg-bios · Other public citations of this URL

    mirror of x bios (tworek ceo bio; jang "trying to automate my work @coreautoai"; gulati incl. unverified "cofounder adept ai")

60. form d write-up (edgar.tools) · app.edgar.tools · 2026-07-30 (day) · original ID: src-hp-edgartools-news · Other public citations of this URL

    filing-derived write-up of the form d figures

61. jerry tworek on o1 reasoning (fast company) · fast company · 2024-09 (month) · original ID: src-hp-fastcompany-o1 · Other public citations of this URL

    o1-era tworek quotes on reasoning

62. core automation, inc. filings (filingflow) · filingflow.app · 2026-07-30 (day) · original ID: src-hp-filingflow · Other public citations of this URL

    form d mirrors/timeline

63. joanne jang profile (forbes) · forbes · undated (unknown) · original ID: src-hp-forbes-jang · Other public citations of this URL

    forbes/30u30-style profile quotes

64. core automation fundraising profile (fundraisingfox) · fundraisingfox.com · 2026 (year) · original ID: src-hp-fundraisingfox · Other public citations of this URL

    aggregated filing + the information x-post quotes

65. your showcase primer: core automation (fysk) · newsletter.foundersysk.com · 2026-08-25 (day) · original ID: src-hp-fysk-primer · Other public citations of this URL

    "20-something people," ~40 by year-end; lamp = fysk lp; sept 16 showcase

66. core automation $500m round listing (gaebler) · gaebler.com · 2026-08-13 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gaebler · Other public citations of this URL

    labels the filing a "$500m round" (loose reading)

67. kanav garg — linkedin · linkedin · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-garg-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    co-founder; ex-deepmind (project mariner post, dec 2024)

68. anmol gulati — linkedin · linkedin · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gulati-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    deepmind roles: mariner/agents tl; gemini 3.0/2.5/2.0 credits; google brain speech

69. anmol gulati — google scholar · scholar.google.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gulati-scholar · Other public citations of this URL

    gulati publications

70. anmol gulatis launch-day post (texxr mirror) · texxr.com · 2026-04-22 (day) · original ID: src-hp-gulati-x · Other public citations of this URL · anmol gulati

    mirror of launch-day post

71. ex-openai researchers startup targets $1b funding (the information) · the information · 2026-01-28 (day) · original ID: src-hp-information-jan · Other public citations of this URL

    first naming of core automation; $500m–$1b seek (paywalled; via decoder)

72. joanne jang — linkedin · linkedin · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-jang-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    openai gm dec 2021–apr 2026; labs/model-behavior history; time100 post

73. joannejang.com · joannejang.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-jang-site · Other public citations of this URL · joanne jang

    personal site — stanford cs/applied math

74. avery lamp — linkedin · linkedin · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-lamp-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    deepmind swe-research; adept mts; stealth co-founder

75. avery lamp — resume · averylamp.me · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-lamp-resume · Other public citations of this URL · avery lamp

    mosaicml composer/yahp; google intern 2018

76. how gpt-5 thinks — mad podcast, october 2025 · youtube · 2025-10-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-mad-podcast · Other public citations of this URL

    "how gpt-5 thinks" — bio chapters (poland, dropping out, trading); "gpt-5 ≈ o3.1"

77. sean mcleish — personal site · mcleish7.github.io · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-mcleish-site · Other public citations of this URL

    sean mcleish (co-author, sep 9 results post) — tilde research intern

78. million integrals — tworeks homepage · millionintegrals.com · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-millionintegrals · Other public citations of this URL · jerry tworek

    tworek's self-authored work history (copilot, codex, o1, o3, gpt-5, chatgpt agent)

79. openai leadership updates, march 2025 · openai · 2025-03 (month) · original ID: src-hp-openai-leadership · Other public citations of this URL

    openai announcement of villagra's cpo promotion

80. swapnil patil — linkedin (likely match) · linkedin · 2026-09-16 (day) · original ID: src-hp-patil-linkedin · Other public citations of this URL

    likely match: ex-google ml-systems perf (gemini-on-gpu, rdma clusters, tpu runtime); cmu phd