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Search Self-play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision

Search Self-Play Boosts Smart Search Agents Without Human Labels

This is about a new way for computers to get better at searching the web by teaching themselves.
A single program plays two roles: it makes tricky search questions and then tries to answer them, using its own search steps as proof.
By doing this self-play the system finds mistakes, fixes them, and gets smarter over time, without needing people to label answers.
The maker part creates harder and harder tasks, the solver part tries to find the right facts, and both parts push each other to improve.
All the search pages the maker used become the source of truth, so answers can be checked and learned from.
The result is search agents that give better answers and that can grow in strength with no human labels.
This approach helps teams scale up fast, it work both for new models and for ones already trained, and it shows a way toward smarter tools that learn by playing, not by waiting on people.
Some steps still need care, but the idea feels powerful and simple.

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Search Self-play: Pushing the Frontier of Agent Capability without Supervision

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