Paper2Agent turns scientific papers into AI research assistants, published in Nature
james_y_zou · x · 2026-10-25
- Stanford's James Zou team published Paper2Agent in Nature: when a paper ships with code, methods and data, the system packages them into a tool set that AI agents can invoke, effectively creating a "virtual author" available around the clock.
- Scientists can plug these tools into their favorite AI platforms to run new data through a study's pipeline, faster and more accurately than general-purpose AI.
- The vision: turning passive papers into "dynamic, living embodiments of knowledge."
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