Excelsior(@excelsioramus):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!

2026.09.24 20:42

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!