The Digital Press

Kosmos is an AI system designed to autonomously conduct scientific research by iteratively analyzing data, searching literature, and generating hypotheses, producing coherent scientific reports with traceable citations. It performs extensive agent rollouts over hours, matching months of human research effort and making both confirmed and novel scientific discoveries.

Why it matters: Kosmos automates complex scientific workflows, potentially accelerating discovery and saving researchers significant time.

Stunning stat: Each Kosmos run analyzes about 1,500 papers, executes 42,000 lines of code, and achieves 79.4% statement accuracy in reports.

The big picture: This system integrates a structured world model to maintain coherence across many research cycles, advancing beyond previous AI limitations.

Commenters say: While impressed by Kosmos’ reasoning and discoveries, some feel "autonomous discovery" is overstated since hypotheses and data sets are preselected and human input remains crucial.