We Built a City of 10k AI Researchers
Primus Society is a virtual community of 10,000 autonomous AI researchers designed to tackle complex scientific problems that exceed the capacity of individual scientists. The system organizes these agents into labs with specific mandates and distinct roles, such as mavericks, followers, and skeptics, to ensure diverse and rigorous exploration. By mimicking human scientific institutions like peer review and grant systems, the platform coordinates the agents to work on frontier problems in fields like machine learning and physics.
- ▪Primus is an AI scientist that reads literature, designs experiments, runs them on GPUs, and writes papers with claims linked to specific experiments.
- ▪The society scales from a single agent to thousands of researchers, each with a unique name, risk tolerance, and approach to problem-solving.
- ▪Roles within the society include mavericks who explore new ideas, followers who extend existing work, and skeptics who verify results.
- ▪The platform uses a city-like interface where buildings represent labs and a central institute manages grants, libraries, and conferences.
- ▪The system is designed to address open-ended problems in science that require pursuing hundreds of lines of inquiry simultaneously.
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| Original publisher | Lab |
| Canonical URL | https://lab.cloud/society/ |
| Publication time | Fri, 25 Sep 2026 03:49:49 +0000 |
| Retrieval time | 2026-09-25T04:00:28.107Z |
| Last seen | 2026-09-25T04:00:28.107Z |
| Headline source | Publisher (no WeSearch rewrite) |
| Excerpt source | publisher body |
| Excerpt method | First ~120 words (~800 chars) of extracted publisher body, fair-use limited. |
| Summary | WeSearch · cerebras-chat (WeSearch summarizer) |
| Summary source text | contentText |
| Citation coverage | Summary is a WeSearch-generated derivative; primary citation is the original publisher URL. |
| Cluster | Slbo7YE-ZQSQ · 1 stories |
| Cluster logic | Grouped by semantic title/content similarity across sources within a rolling window. Same-publisher template collisions are excluded from coverage comparison. |
| Ranking reason | Story pages are not engagement-ranked. Hub feeds use recency, with optional source-diversified chronological ordering (cap consecutive stories per source). No personalized ranking. |
| Publisher visit | Yes — open original |
| Substitutes article? | No — link-out required for full text |
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| Indexing | May the item be indexed (stored, ranked, made findable)? | Allowed |
| Snippet | May a short excerpt of the publisher's text be shown? | Allowed |
| AI summary | May WeSearch generate its own short summary of the article? | Limited |
| Retrieval / RAG | May the content be exposed for third-party retrieval-augmented generation? | Not asserted |
| Model training | May the content be used to train AI models? | Not asserted |
| Commercial reuse | May the content be reused commercially? | Not permitted |
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We Built a City of10,000 AI Researchers Science has always been limited by the number of scientists. In Primus Society, it is only limited by the number of GPUs. Scroll to learn more Some problems have no end state. Proving a stated theorem is hard, but you know when you are done. Working out what should follow today's language models is a different kind of problem. So is new physics, or a new branch of mathematics. Nobody can write down the end state in advance, and each result changes what the next question should be. These problems take longer than a career. They are the ones we want AI to work on. First, we built one AI scientist. We called it Primus. Researchers all over the world use Primus to take on PhD-level problems in machine learning, quantum mechanics, and mathematics.
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