Hexo Labs, the research lab developing superintelligence, today announced the launch of an open-source agent called SIA, short for Self-Improving-AI. SIA is the world’s first agent that teaches itself how to perform tasks and improve autonomously, accelerating the path to superintelligence by 350X as indicated by a benchmark designed by OpenAI.
SIA is a self-improving agent designed to operate in continuous loops of learning and adaptation. It generates hypotheses, runs experiments, evaluates outcomes, updates its approach, and repeats. Similar approaches have been found within Google DeepMind’s Alpha Go, which mastered playing the ancient Chinese board game Go; and IBM’s Deep Blue, a supercomputer for chess-playing that defeated grandmaster Garry Kasparov.
“Today’s AI systems are powerful but share a fundamental limitation: every meaningful leap still depends on intervention of human experts to decide what to try next, interpret results, and refine direction,” said Kunal Bhatia, CEO and Co-Founder of Hexo Labs. “But superintelligence will not emerge from static models. SIA learns from itself through execution and compounds its capability with every cycle.”
The research team at Hexo Labs will unleash SIA on complex problems across science, business, engineering, and other domains that share the same underlying structure of continuous iteration towards better outcomes. Hexo Labs is partnered with leading research scientists at Stanford University, the University of Oxford, and the University of California Santa Barbara.
“Hexo Labs is on the cutting-edge of AI research,” said Eric Wang, Asst. Prof. at the University of California Santa Barbara. “Hexo Labs’ work towards Recursive Self Improving AI could be gamechanging.”
Hexo Labs is releasing SIA as an open source framework, reflecting the company’s belief that the infrastructure for self-improving agents should be transparent, aligned, and accessible to the broader research community. SIA has already achieved top-tier results on MLE-Bench, a benchmark designed by OpenAI to evaluate the ability of an agent to train a machine learning AI model.
To expand access and accelerate development, Hexo Labs has also introduced the Hexo Labs Grant Program. The program provides researchers with access to SIA, infrastructure credits for large-scale experimentation, and direct collaboration with the Hexo Labs team.
About Hexo Labs
Hexo Labs is a neo research lab built to design, test, and evolve real-world solutions that accelerate superintelligence. The company believes the world is moving from AI that executes tasks to agents that improve themselves, from fixed capability to compounding capability, from tools to evolving agents.
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