Autoscience Wants to Automate Research // AIDRAN

Autoscience's pitch is precise in a way that obscures what it refuses to address. The company's seed round funds a virtual laboratory where non-human AI Scientists and Engineers invent and validate new machine learning models continuously — a defined engineering problem with clear success criteria. What success looks like for AI doing science across other domains is not a question the announcement is designed to answer. The press release names the team's credentials (Google X, MIT, Harvard) and the investors (General Catalyst, Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund) but provides no framework…

Autoscience Raises $14M to Automate Research—Into Itself

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