OpenScience
The open-source AI workbench for scientific research
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OpenScience is an open-source AI agent for scientific research. It reads papers, writes and runs code, works in notebooks and a terminal, and sends long jobs to Modal, your own servers, or a Slurm/PBS cluster. Give it a metric and Autoresearch runs experiments, logs every one, and keeps hill-climbing. Use 30+ models through one wallet, sign in with ChatGPT, or run a local model. It ranks #1 on agentic scientific research benchmarks. Free and open source.
PH · launched Sep 27, 2026 · 74 upvotes (top 2%) · 0 views
Niche: autonomous ai research agents · 109 launches, 5 in the last 7 days ▼ -55% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Agent / copilot
- Prosumer
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
- Open Source
- Artificial Intelligence
- Science
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Could you build this?
No Autonomous scientific research execution involves dynamic integration with HPC schedulers (Slurm/PBS), container sandboxing, self-debugging scientific code, and multi-step iterative experimental planning.
What it would actually take: Requires an agentic orchestrator built around Docker/Singularity virtualization, deep RPC integration with Slurm/PBS clusters and cloud serverless GPU platforms (Modal), an automated experiment-tracking ledger (MLflow/Weights & Biases style), and self-healing LLM execution harnesses. Building this safely and effectively requires specialized experience in high-performance computing (HPC), distributed systems, and ML research workflows.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 847 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #56 of 848 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 330 days after the earliest competitor.
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- BioBasicsBench by OpenAI · ph · 2026-11-09 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.53
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- AnswerThis: The AI Research Assistant · yc · 2025-11-01 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.51
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