{"slug": "chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans", "title": "Chinese researchers chart 5-stage path toward ‘last AI built by humans’", "summary": "Researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory published a joint paper on Thursday titled \"The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement\", outlining a five-stage road map for recursive self-improvement (RSI) in AI. The study highlights growing industry focus on automating the labour-intensive life cycle of training, evaluating and fine-tuning AI models, a field where US firms hold an early lead due to superior access to compute resources.", "body_md": "Advertisement\n\n# Chinese researchers chart 5-stage path toward ‘last AI built by humans’\n\nAutomating AI research has emerged as a battleground, though US firms have an early lead due to superior access to compute resources\n\n2-MIN READ2-MIN\n\n Listen\n\n[Minxiao Chang](/author/minxiao-chang)in Shenzhen\n\nResearchers from China’s leading universities and tech giants are setting their sights on a crucial new front in the AI race with the US: developing systems capable of building better versions of themselves without human intervention.\n\nIn a joint paper published on Thursday, researchers from ByteDance, Tsinghua University and the Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, among others, outlined a five-stage road map for \n\n[recursive self-improvement (RSI).](https://www.scmp.com/tech/big-tech/article/3367237/us-and-china-are-racing-build-self-improving-ai-heres-whats-stake?module=inline&pgtype=article)\nThe study, titled “The Last AI Built by Humans: Toward Genuine Recursive Self-Improvement”, highlights a growing industry focus on automating the labour-intensive life cycle of training, evaluating, and fine-tuning AI models.\n\nSelect Voice\n\nSelect Speed\n\n1x\n\nAI-generated voice", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans", "canonical_source": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3367486/chinese-researchers-chart-five-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-humans?utm_source=rss_feed", "published_at": "2026-09-14 13:30:06+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-14 13:46:38.540824+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-safety"], "entities": ["ByteDance", "Tsinghua University", "Shanghai Artificial Intelligence Laboratory", "Minxiao Chang"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/chinese-researchers-chart-5-stage-path-toward-last-ai-built-by-humans.jsonld"}}