New Lab Launches to Automate Science via Recursively Self-Improved Agents
burny_tech · x · 2026-08-06
The post quotes Theo Jaffee's announcement of starting a new lab called neolab.
The lab's mission is to automate AI research using recursively self-improved agents, with the ultimate goal of automating scientific discovery. The poster expressed strong support for this direction, noting that an evolutionary competition among methods to automate science is highly beneficial for the field.
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