What does Core Automation do?
Core Automation is a San Francisco AI research lab founded in late March 2026 by Jerry Tworek, former VP of Research at OpenAI, where he led work on reinforcement learning and the o1/o3 reasoning models. It is pursuing new learning algorithms and non-Transformer architectures aimed at continual learning — models that keep improving from real-world experience after deployment rather than from static pretraining checkpoints. Its stated goal is to build the world's most automated AI lab, with a founding team recruited from OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic.