Prime Intellect's Elie Bakouch races Claude Code and Codex on Optimizer Speedrun
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Elie Bakouch, research engineer at Prime Intellect and creator of Hugging Face's SmolLM, ran Claude Code and Codex against the community's Optimizer Speedrun, a race to train a GPT-2-level model. He argues big labs claim recursive self-improvement is coming without an independent benchmark to check it.
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