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every source cited in the core automation history, with its date and type.
the catalog
every claim on this site carries source ids that resolve here. type marks the evidence role; dates keep the precision the source gave.
- 2026-07-23auto-research is moving from benchmarks to real-world loops (agi house)agihousecommunity.beehiiv.com"there is no way to outsource your understanding"; verification-bottleneck framing
- 2026-04-22core automation poaches top anthropic and deepmind talent (ai2work)ai2.workceres model claim via the information; neolab comparison table; "up to $1b" phrasing
- 2026-05-03shopify tangent and the auto-research discourse (ainext)ain3xt.comadjacent discourse: karpathy's "auto-research" term; shopify tangent precedent
- 2026-05core automation seeks funds at $4b valuation (ainvest — flagged unreliable relay)ainvest.comretained as flag: contradictory numbers ($500m–$1b; "late january 2026") — unreliable relay
- 2026-08-13core automation is raising $500m (axios pro)axios"raising up to $500m per sec filing"; "ai continual learning model developer"
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, bi africa editionafrica.businessinsider.comsame bi piece, africa edition
- 2026translated tworek interview (biggo relay)finance.biggo.comsame interview; o1/o3 compute-allocation backstory
- 2026translated tworek interview (btcc relay)btcc.comchinese-media interview relay; "third-generation ai lab"; 30x experiment compression; "company brain"; chess analogy
- 2026-01-07openai reasoning chief jerry tworek quits after 7 years (business today)businesstoday.inexit coverage; "major loss for openai" framing
- 2026-05-08core automation eyes $300m–$500m raise at $4b valuation (dealroom note)app.dealroom.co$300–500m at ~$4b; $100m at $1b closed weeks prior; investors nvidia/spark/accel; cofounders incl. villagra; "isn't close to releasing" a product
- 2026-05ai money keeps flowing — core automation quadruples valuation in weeks (the decoder)the-decoder.com"quadruples valuation in weeks"; models "keep learning after training"
- 2026the psgd optimizer clip (digg tech)diggpsgd optimizer clip; "recovers shampoo"; internal `coreauto` codebase
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, dnyuz republishdnyuz.combi republish
- 2026-04-22ai daily news rundown, april 22 (enoumen)enoumen.substack.comdaily-rundown recap; "an ai to build ai"
- 2026-04-21core automation launch submission by averylamphacker news · avery lampsubmission by cofounder averylamp; 1 point, 0 comments
- 2026-07-28the pacing the frontier hn threadhacker news"pacing the frontier" discussion; 0xdeafbead cites core automation signatories vs. regulatory-capture theory
- 2026-07-29sequoia training data video submissionhacker newssequoia video submission; 2 points, 0 comments
- 2026-09-10continual learning is the next bottleneck — rohan anil (the information bottleneck)the-information-bottleneck.comanil interview; pretrain/rl split as "organizational convenience"; kernel-competition + hiring segments; dolores park origin
- 2026-07training data episode recap (kazuha)kazuha.aiepisode summary; claims "backed by sequoia capital" (unconfirmed)
- 2026-09core automation — linkedin company pagelinkedin~21 employees; key-executive list; sf hq; founded 2026
- 2026-09marksaroufim.commarksaroufim.com · mark saroufimsaroufim: core automation cofounder, pytorch maintainer, gpu mode cofounder
- 2026the neolab raising piles of cash (the microdose)themicrodose.aiskeptic voice: "raising piles of cash without a working product"
- 2026-04-22the openai mafia frame (mk korea)mk.co.kr"openai mafia" frame; o1/o3 provenance; no disclosed business model
- 2026-08-26ai labs are simply cooked — jerry tworek (mts)snipd"ai labs are simply cooked"; three-generations model; 2-year horizon; agents' taste deficit; "company brain"
- 2026the problem with testing ai architectures at small scale (newsfilter transcript)newsfilter.iosmall-scale eval critique; rl needs compute threshold
- 2026-07pacing the frontier — open letterpacingthefrontier.com1,386 frontier-ai employees; requests usg-backed international pacing tools for automated ai development
- 2026core automation (prinzai analysis)prinzai.comdeepest secondary analysis: ceres, 100x less data, post-gradient-descent claim, self-replicating factories/biomachines/terraforming; sutskever 5–20y continual-learning foil; bitter-lesson dilemma
- 2026-09core automation company profile (sacra)sacrafunding recap; monetization speculation; paradigm-timing risk analysis
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — tworek and anil (sequoia training data)youtube · sonya huang and pat gradytworek+anil; transformer-ceiling thesis; codex ~20-min compaction; kernel-generation automation; hosts huang & grady
- 2026jerry tworek is betting that humans are the bottleneck (singularity moments)singularitymoments.com"brilliant and arrogant"; "heard this story a dozen times"; metric-optimization risk
- 2026-07-30core automation form d record (takeoff radar)takeoffradar.comform d: $635,249,754 target; $432,125,053 raised; first sale 2026-07-15
- 2026-05-07the information reports $300m–$500m at ~$4b (techmeme record)techmeme.comthe information $4b report headline + palazzolo "neolab land" quote
- 2026-05-08ex-openai researchers ai startup hits $4b valuation in 6 weeks (testingcatalog)testingcatalog.netrelays the information; single-phase training; "self-replicating factory"/"biological machines" roadmap
- 2026-04-22core automation launches ai lab with top researchers (texxr)texxr.comlaunch aggregation; notes openai's autonomous-research goal as context
- 2026-01openais vp researcher jerry tworek resigns (times of india)timesofindia.indiatimes.comexit memo verbatim; chinchilla/rl-on-robots history
- 2026-01-05openais research lead is departing after nearly seven years (the verge)the vergetworek exit; memo/x post quoted
- 2026-04-22core automation attracts talent from anthropic and google deepmind (viral methods)metodoviral.comlay-audience explainer of "nerdsniped" launch
- 2026-04-22the nerdsniped launch story, yahoo syndicationfinance.yahoo.combi syndication; adds ehsan amid, avery lamp, julia villagra, sai surya duvvuri
- 2026-07auto-research summit recap (agi house)blog.agihouse.orgauto-research summit recap; open-problems slide; 18 teams
- 2026-07-29jerry tworek deep-dive (agi house)blog.agihouse.orgdeep-dive on tworek keynote/interview — evals, o1→o3, continual learning, founding
- 2026-06-02tilde research open-sources wall attention (ai insiders)aiinsiders.nettilde's wall attention open-sourced
- 2026core automation funding profile (ai market watch)ai-market-watch.com~$532m total claim; jul ~$432m at ~$3.6b post (pitchbook/forge-derived); scribble/threshold also listed
- 2026-09-16ehsan amids research sitesites.google.com · ehsan amidamid bio: ucsc phd 2020 (warmuth), aalto msc, google brain oct 2021–2026 gemini core, joined core apr 2026
- 2026rohan anil bio (teahose)teahose.comanil bio: distinguished engineer deepmind, 1-of-4 gemini pretraining leads, shampoo, anthropic
- 2026-04-22new ai lab core automation nerdsniped researchers from anthropic, google deepmind (business insider)business insiderlaunch-day roster: anil "nerdsniped" quote; gulati quote; jang, villagra, lamp, amid, duvvuri named
- 2025-08openai chief people officer julia villagra leaving (business insider)business insidervillagra's openai exit; reuters' "art, music and storytelling…agi" line
- 2026-07-29training data episode summary (biggo finance)finance.biggo.comepisode summary incl. the "first step to replacing transformers" tweet
- 2026-05core automation targets $4b valuation recap (content.fans)content.fansrecap incl. tworek's ai agenda live sf slot
- 2026-09-16associate general manager program (coreauto.com)coreauto.comassociate general manager internship page — jan–mar 2027, $10k/mo, apply by oct 6, 2026
- 2026-05-27the core automation blogcoreauto.com · core automationcompany blog corpus: five 2026 posts — saroufim on authoring and systems code, the one layer deeper launch and results, amid on neural architecture discovery
- 2026core automation nz / uk — the other namesakescoreautomation.co.nz / coreautomation.co.ukdisambiguation: the nz (formerly sb automation) and uk (est. 2008, body-in-white tooling) namesake firms — unrelated to the 2026 ai lab
- 2026-09-16coreauto.com — company sitecoreauto.comcompany homepage — "world's most automated ai lab," research/approach/vision/team copy
- 2026-09-16core automation, inc. — the 2001 namesakecoreautomation.comdisambiguation: sacramento industrial-automation firm (founded 2001, depew & rozok)
- 2026-01-21he left openai to think bigger — core memory ep. 53corememory.com · ashlee vanceexit interview; q*/strawberry/o1 lineage; big labs "conservative"
- 2026-01-05openai loses top ai researcher jerry tworek after seven years (the decoder)the-decoder.comtworek exits openai; quote "explore types of research that are hard to do at openai"
- 2026-01google caught up because openai stumbled (the decoder)the-decoder.comcore memory recap: agi ~2029; continual learning "one of the last important building blocks"; google catch-up framing
- 2026-04-22ex-openai researcher jerry tworek launches core automation (the decoder)the-decoder.comlaunch coverage; "deep learning research 'is done'"; neo-lab framing
- 2026-01-29two startups want to replace how ai learns (the decoder)the-decoder.compairs core automation w/ flapping airplanes; 100× less data goal; "self-replicating factories…planetary terraforming"
- 2026x bios mirror (digg)diggmirror of x bios (tworek ceo bio; jang "trying to automate my work @coreautoai"; gulati incl. unverified "cofounder adept ai")
- 2026-07-30form d write-up (edgar.tools)app.edgar.toolsfiling-derived write-up of the form d figures
- 2024-09jerry tworek on o1 reasoning (fast company)fast companyo1-era tworek quotes on reasoning
- 2026-07-30core automation, inc. filings (filingflow)filingflow.appform d mirrors/timeline
- undatedjoanne jang profile (forbes)forbesforbes/30u30-style profile quotes
- 2026core automation fundraising profile (fundraisingfox)fundraisingfox.comaggregated filing + the information x-post quotes
- 2026-08-25your showcase primer: core automation (fysk)newsletter.foundersysk.com"20-something people," ~40 by year-end; lamp = fysk lp; sept 16 showcase
- 2026-08-13core automation $500m round listing (gaebler)gaebler.comlabels the filing a "$500m round" (loose reading)
- 2026-09-16kanav garg — linkedinlinkedinco-founder; ex-deepmind (project mariner post, dec 2024)
- 2026-09-16anmol gulati — linkedinlinkedindeepmind roles: mariner/agents tl; gemini 3.0/2.5/2.0 credits; google brain speech
- 2026-09-16anmol gulati — google scholarscholar.google.comgulati publications
- 2026-04-22anmol gulatis launch-day post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · anmol gulatimirror of launch-day post
- 2026-01-28ex-openai researchers startup targets $1b funding (the information)the informationfirst naming of core automation; $500m–$1b seek (paywalled; via decoder)
- 2026-09-16joanne jang — linkedinlinkedinopenai gm dec 2021–apr 2026; labs/model-behavior history; time100 post
- 2026-09-16joannejang.comjoannejang.com · joanne jangpersonal site — stanford cs/applied math
- 2026-09-16avery lamp — linkedinlinkedindeepmind swe-research; adept mts; stealth co-founder
- 2026-09-16avery lamp — resumeaverylamp.me · avery lampmosaicml composer/yahp; google intern 2018
- 2025-10-16how gpt-5 thinks — mad podcast, october 2025youtube"how gpt-5 thinks" — bio chapters (poland, dropping out, trading); "gpt-5 ≈ o3.1"
- 2026-09-16sean mcleish — personal sitemcleish7.github.iosean mcleish (co-author, sep 9 results post) — tilde research intern
- 2026-09-16million integrals — tworeks homepagemillionintegrals.com · jerry tworektworek's self-authored work history (copilot, codex, o1, o3, gpt-5, chatgpt agent)
- 2025-03openai leadership updates, march 2025openaiopenai announcement of villagra's cpo promotion
- 2026-09-16swapnil patil — linkedin (likely match)linkedinlikely match: ex-google ml-systems perf (gemini-on-gpu, rdma clusters, tpu runtime); cmu phd
- 2026joanne jang profile (prometheus)prometheusroot.commodel spec stewardship; oai labs; reservoir samples; jony ive adjacency (reported)
- 2026-09-16aliisa rosenthal — acrew capitalacrewcapital.comacrew gp bio
- 2026-01-22openais former head of sales is entering vc (fortune)fortunerosenthal → acrew gp; openai first commercial hire jun 2022
- 2026-09-16aliisa rosenthal — linkedinlinkedin"$10m→$10b" revenue scaling claims (self-reported)
- 2019-10solving rubiks cube with a robot hand (arxiv 1910.07113)arxiv.org"solving rubik's cube with a robot hand" (tworek co-author)
- 2026-09-16mark saroufim — githubgithubgithub profile — @coreautom/@pytorch/@gpu-mode
- 2026-09-16mark saroufim — linkedinlinkedingpu mode/pytorch work list
- 2026from pytorch to gpu mode — saroufim interviewsnipd"from pytorch to gpu mode" — microsoft→graphcore→pytorch→gpu mode path
- 2026-09-16rohan anil — google scholarscholar.google.comanil publications (gemini, palm, etc.)
- 2026-09-16jerry tworek — google scholarscholar.google.com.sgtworek citation profile
- 2026-08-17avsf – core automation 2026, llc — form d (sec)sec"avsf – core automation 2026, llc" — alumni ventures feeder spv, $2,109,250, 100 investors, first sale 2026-08-03
- 2026-07-30core automation, inc. — form d (sec)secform d: $635,249,754 offering; $432,125,053 sold; $135,252,607 safe conversion; 51 investors; first sale 2026-07-15; officers/directors; 340 brannan st sf
- 2026-07-31sequoia promo post quoting tworek (linkedin)linkedin · sequoia capitalsequoia promo quoting tworek's automation-agency framing
- 2026-07core automation company profile (silicon valley investclub — conflates the 2001 namesake)siliconvalleyinvestclub.comcaplight/forge-sourced table: apr seed $100m @ $1b post; jul $432.125m @ $3.62b post
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — timestamped transcript (teahose)teahose.com · sonya huang and pat gradytimestamped verbatim quotes from the episode
- 2026-04-21core automations first x post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · core automationmirror of company's first x post ("today we're announcing core automation…")
- 2026-04-21tworeks launch post (texxr mirror)texxr.com · jerry tworektworek's launch tweet ("small step for a finger on 'post tweet' button…")
- 2026rohan anil — theorg profiletheorg.comanthropic mts since jun 2025; ucsd ms; bits pilani
- 2026-09-16tilde research — linkedinlinkedin · tilde researchtilde research — 12-person moonshot lab (dhruv pai, mason wang); competition co-host
- 2026-07-29building the automated agi lab — tworek and anil (getpodcast record)getpodcast.com · sonya huang and pat gradysequoia training data ep w/ tworek & anil
- 2026-09-16jerry tworek — linkedinlinkedinopenai roles/dates; independent view (amsterdam) 2015–2018
- 2026ex-openai researcher on why he left — unsupervised learning ep. 81unsupervised-learning.simplecast.comtworek on scaling limits, continual learning, why he left
- 2026-09-08the two years his idea sat unfunded (ecosystem.ai)jayvanzyl.me"two years unfunded" rl-at-openai anecdote
- 2026core automation funding profile (vcbacked)vcbacked.co$100m seed, apr 2026; accel/nvidia/spark
- 2026-09-16julia villagra — linkedinlinkedinopenai cpo jun 2024–oct 2025 (per li text); hrt head of people; "member of the xyz staff"
- 2020jerry tworek speaker bio (warsaw.ai)warsaw.aibio: msc mathematics univ. of warsaw; "first five years of his career in the hedge fund industry"
- undatedjoanne jang speaker bio (womenpm)womenpm.orgbio: google assistant nlu, dropbox; ms cs + bs applied math stanford; joined openai 2021
AI-drafted at Ben Guo's direct request and credited to Hraness; every claim links to its cataloged source.