Import AI· Jack Clark·· 2026-06-29
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
Import AI 463: Self-improving robots; a 10k Chinese GPU cluster; and an elegiac essay for the human era
AI summary
NVIDIA's ENPIRE lets coding agents drive autonomous experiments and iteration with real robot arms. Dual YAM arms and an RTX 5090 workstation achieved 99% success on PushT, pin organisation and cutting cable ties. GPT-5.5/Codex and Opus 4.7/Claude Code traded wins, while Kimi-2.6 lagged. Eight agents found higher-scoring solutions faster.
Selection record
Threshold 76Media and individualsFirst 42Second 42
Not admittedSum of both 84 < twice the threshold 152
- Source tier
- Media and individuals; this tier's threshold is 76
- Pre-filter
- passed：正文详述AI机器人自改进、GPU训练等AI技术
A model scores each item twice, independently, against one written standard, out of 100. An item is admitted only when the two scores add up to twice the threshold. The threshold is set per source tier.
Source: Import AI · importai.substack.com