Autoscience Institute

Autoscience Institute builds AI systems that autonomously conduct AI research, effectively automating the role of the AI research scientist. Based in San Mateo, California, the company runs an autonomous research lab in which AI systems create, evaluate, and deploy new machine learning models with minimal human intervention - an approach designed to remove human bottlenecks from the research process and accelerate scientific discovery.

Its flagship system, Carl, is described as the first AI system to produce an academically peer-reviewed research paper. That paper was accepted at ICLR 2025 Workshops. Alongside Carl, the institute operates an autonomous lab for end-to-end model development and deployment. Technical work spans deep learning, reinforcement learning, genetic algorithms, and distributed model training.

The company has raised $14 million in seed funding. Its founding team has backgrounds at Alphabet's X, MIT, and Harvard. Autoscience Institute works at the intersection of AI research and development, machine learning, and scientific discovery, and positions autonomous AI research labs as its core area of practice.