The AI Scientist v2 (SakanaAI)
github.com/sakanaai/ai-scientist-v2Official implementation of the second-generation fully autonomous scientific discovery system, extending the original with agentic tree search and reduced template dependency to achieve workshop-level accepted papers (6.7K+ stars, 2025)
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- Awesome AI for Science — github.com/sakanaai/ai-scientist-v2
- GitHub — github.com/sakanaai/ai-scientist-v2
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