A lab you may never have heard of just unveiled the most staggering and the most legible version of autonomous AI research.
@transformerlab's Primus Society organizes thousands of AI Scientists in a simulation of the same institutional structure that their human scientist counterparts have worked in for centuries - complete with diversely-minded researchers, labs with focused missions, peer-review, grants, and finite budgets.
One AI Scientist's work was already cited by
@GoogleDeepMind, and now Society is pushing the AI frontier, having developed a cheaper way to pretrain models in its first few weeks.
What Society will do as it scales and its work compounds is the open question, and we're watching closely!