
Sakana AIActive
The AI Scientist
CLIFreeUsage-based
Released 12 Aug 2024Updated 5 May 2026Global · Global
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Overview
System type
Input
Textcode
Output
TextCodeImage
Access & Pricing
PUBLIC
Access channels
CLI
Access via command-line interface.
Availability scope
Global
Global
Open-source project (Apache 2.0) available globally via GitHub. Runs locally — requires the user's own GPU infrastructure and API keys to frontier models (Claude 3.5 Sonnet, GPT-4o, DeepSeek, o1).
Subscription model
FreeUsage-based
Pricing
The system is open-source (Apache 2.0) and free to run locally. The real cost comes from LLM API fees and GPU infrastructure — authors report roughly 15 USD per fully autonomous scientific paper.
Capabilities
7 capabilities
Reasoning & Planning
Agency & Action
Task Specialization
Integrations
Product features
System tools
Ecosystem
Related technologies
AI Agents (Autonomous Agents)
Agents
Agentic AI
Agents
MAS
Architecture
Tool-augmented LLM
Augmentation
CoT
Reasoning
Applications
Research assistanceHypothesis generationCodingWriting assistance
Security & Enterprise
The system executes LLM-generated code locally. Authors explicitly warn that the agent may modify its own run script and import arbitrary libraries — sandboxed / containerized execution is strongly recommended.
Sources
5 sources
Sakana AI — The AI Scientist (oficjalny blog)
Official siteFetched: 5 May 2026
SakanaAI/AI-Scientist (GitHub)
RepositoryFetched: 5 May 2026
The AI Scientist: Towards Fully Automated Open-Ended Scientific Discovery (arXiv:2408.06292)
PaperFetched: 5 May 2026
Sakana AI — The AI Scientist-v2 (ICLR 2025 workshop paper)
BlogFetched: 5 May 2026
SakanaAI/AI-Scientist-v2 (GitHub)
RepositoryFetched: 5 May 2026


