Salesforce introduced SFR-AutoR&D on November 11, 2026, saying its agents produced SFR-Embedding v4 in about 80 hours rather than the several weeks that human experimentation often requires. The system is designed to run the research cycle autonomously, both by changing existing codebases and by developing and testing new training methods for AI models. The work extends beyond a standalone research demonstration. SFR-AutoR&D had already improved SFR-Embedding V3, which Salesforce uses for…