ai rd frontier model development
Framework levels: B0 · assessed 2026-09-10
Assessor: Duan et al.
Duan et al. place the task-specific AlphaEvolve program-search boundary at B0 in their industry table. Deployment of generated artifacts is a different boundary from autonomous inheritance by the improver.
Decisions or controls outside the AI system: Task-specific evaluators; Human production integration
Evidence against this assessment: None cited in this assessment
Extraction: agent checked. This checks whether the record matches its source; it does not mean the experiment was repeated independently.