Third Moment Research says its agents can run for 36+ hours
OpenAI says Third Moment Research is building AI agents designed to keep working for days and improve with use, highlighting a long-running agent approach that the company links to cybersecurity and workflow automation.
Evidence and context
The source material, published by OpenAI on October 14, 2026, says the lab runs 10,000 agents for more than 36 hours using GPT-6 Astra and GPT-6.1 Sol, along with Codex and Daybreak for cybersecurity. The same description says the agents focus for days and improve with use. Those claims come from OpenAI's report and are not independently verified in the material provided.
Background material adds that Third Moment Research's official website identifies the company as being in San Francisco, California, and says it markets managed, automatically improving AI inference endpoints. Its stated process is to collect requests into end-to-end task trajectories, diagnose failure modes, obtain customer approval, build issue-specific evaluations, and improve models or their execution harness before shipping a new endpoint with evaluation results. That positioning is company-supplied and should be treated as a description of its product, not independent evidence of performance.
The background also notes that the company says its name refers to statistical moments and that it emphasizes rare, difficult failure cases that average evaluation scores can miss. A third-party startup directory describes it as an applied AI lab for autonomous research and links it with Neo, but that account conflicts with the company's current official product positioning and accelerator participation was not independently confirmed from an accessible Neo profile. No exact incorporation date, verified founder roster, funding total, valuation or independently benchmarked performance was established in the reviewed material.
Related dated coverage supplied in the enrichment points to cybersecurity as a broader theme: on August 27, 2026, OpenAI published a call for collective action on cyber defense, while Poder360 reported that technology giants called for global cybersecurity mobilization. The provided material does not establish a direct business link between those items and Third Moment Research beyond the shared cybersecurity context.