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Sakana AI, a company founded by Llion Jones, one of the authors of the Transformer paper, has announced a major breakthrough: the launch of the world's first "AI Scientist"—an AI system designed to automate scientific research and discovery. Developed in collaboration with the Foerster Lab at the University of Oxford and a team from the University of British Columbia, this AI Scientist can autonomously handle the entire research process—from idea conception, experiment design, coding, execution, to writing papers. It has produced ten academic papers in machine learning, each costing only around $15. Sakana AI also developed an AI Reviewer system to evaluate and improve the papers generated by the AI Scientist, creating a closed-loop research ecosystem. This innovation automates research and lowers barriers by open-sourcing code and papers, potentially accelerating scientific progress. In tests, Claude-Sonnet-3.5 outperformed other models in idea innovation, experiment success rate, and paper quality. While GPT-4o and DeepSeek Coder had similar performance, DeepSeek Coder was 30 times cheaper. The related papers were published on arXiv on August 12.

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