Stanford's Paper2Agent turns scientific papers into collaborating AI agents
burny_tech · x · 2026-09-18
A Stanford Medicine team led by postdoc Jiacheng Miao and professor James Zou built Paper2Agent, a program that converts any scientific manuscript — text, figures and data — into an interactive AI agent.
- Paper agents can answer questions about the paper, run analyses, and talk to other paper agents to collaborate on new discoveries
- Zou frames it as reimagining centuries of publishing knowledge in static artifacts, from carved stones to printed pages
- Reported by Stanford Medicine News Center, September 2026
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