Autoscience Institute

San Mateo, California, USA · ≈14 employees · autoscience.ai

Autoscience Institute is an AI research lab based in San Francisco, California, founded in 2024. The company focuses on developing AI systems that autonomously conduct research and enhance machine learning model development. Its mission is to eliminate the human bottleneck in AI discovery by deploying automated AI research scientists that deliver verified improvements to machine learning models rapidly. The institute offers two main products: Mira, a machine learning research agent that integrates into existing codebases to deliver verified improvements within a week, and Carl, an automated research synthesis agent that produces academically peer-reviewed research. Carl has achieved significant milestones, including generating research papers accepted through double-blind peer review, marking it as the first AI agent to autonomously create peer-reviewed literature. Autoscience Institute serves frontier and applied AI labs, companies developing machine learning models, and organizations looking to automate AI research and development. The company operates a managed service that deploys numerous automated AI research scientists to continuously enhance clients' machine learning models.