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LLM Stats
RSI Index
The RSI (Recursive Self-Improvement) Index is OpenAI's aggregate metric across a bundle of internal AI-research evaluations, including debugging research systems, optimizing kernels and training recipes, and improving other models, measuring progress toward recursive self-improvement.
Evaluation context and evidence
- Source
- LLM Stats
- Publisher
- Not recorded
- Benchmark release
- Not recorded
- Collected
- 2026-08-17
- Modality
- text
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Original sources
Reported results 3
Shown in source observation order, not ranked. Dates retain the precision provided by the source.