AutoResearch (Karpathy)
Autonomous research agent from the former Tesla AI director. Conducts multi-step research workflows with web search, paper analysis, and synthesis.
- Run autonomous research on any topic with multi-source analysis
- Synthesize findings from web searches and academic papers
- Generate structured research reports from a single prompt
Built by Andrej Karpathy (former Tesla AI director, OpenAI founding team). Strong credibility signal. Demonstrates production-quality autonomous research patterns.
Researchers, analysts, and consultants who need AI to conduct thorough multi-source research autonomously.
https://github.com/karpathy/autoresearch
By Andrej Karpathy
How to Get It
This is a methodology or approach — no installation needed. You can use it in Claude Cowork, Claude Code, or Claude Chat. Follow the steps described in the overview, or paste the description into a Claude conversation and ask Claude to help you set it up.
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Discussed on Hacker News, Reddit
- Andrew Karpathy’s “autoresearch”: An autonomous loop where AI edits PyTorch, run — Reddit · 717 pts
- Autoresearch on an old research idea — Hacker News · 428 pts
- Karpathy just open-sourced autoresearch. One GPU. 100 ML experiments. Overnight — Reddit · 385 pts
36 mentions across 2 sources
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From a highly credible author (Karpathy). Open source.
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