Sakana AI Releases 'The Agentic Scientist' for Automated Research

Sakana AI released The Agentic Scientist and companion figure tool AutoIllustrate as open source. The company says its research system coordinates coding agents to test hypotheses, evaluate results and draft papers. Its researchers guided and checked an Error Diffusion study accepted for an ALIFE 2026 oral presentation. Sakana AI also reports Doc-to-LoRA retrieval accuracy rose from 52% to 98% on synthetic multi-needle tasks; performance on natural documents remains untested.