Aster

Automating open-ended research.

[Aster @asterailabs]

Introducing Aster — a major breakthrough for research intelligence.

Aster isn’t a single agent. It is the first autonomous lab orchestrating thousands of research agents in parallel.

We pointed Aster towards ProteinGym, a benchmark that measures how accurately models predict the effects of protein mutations. It set the world record in 30 minutes.

And it did it efficiently:
•    57x faster than single agent systems on the same task.
•    One-third the cost for the same result.

But here’s what we realized: measurable problems are only a small sliver of research.

The hard ones were never measurable.

At Aster, we’re on a mission to automate open-ended research, research that defines its own problems before it can answer them.

The future doesn’t wait to be defined by benchmarks. Neither do we.

Read our research writeups at https://t.co/XwsYaasrnv.

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Aster (@asterailabs) is building the autonomous research lab.

They run thousands of AI agents in parallel to achieve 1000x speedups in autonomous research. Their lab just set a world record on ProteinGym in 30 minutes—and now they're automating open-ended research.

Congrats on the launch, @emmett_bicker!

https://t.co/NXCOnsEe8N

[Y Combinator @ycombinator]

Aster (@asterailabs) is building the autonomous research lab.

They run thousands of AI agents in parallel to achieve 1000x speedups in autonomous research. Their lab just set a world record on ProteinGym in 30 minutes—and now they're automating open-ended research.

Congrats on the launch, @emmett_bicker!

https://t.co/NXCOnsEe8N

[Aster @asterailabs]

@ycombinator @walterindustry @nikolas_keller @lukaspostulka Let’s go Niko!!

[Aster @asterailabs]

@ycombinator @jynniit @clairen19 @manny4c Congrats!! Love using Napkin Math :)

[Aster @asterailabs]

@JIACHENLIU8 This is super interesting work! Wondering about the full preservation of a search space -- while it's good to have lossless data, this seems pretty hard for agents to parse and understand
Wonder if there's a good format for concisely collapsing search tree info in fewer tokens.

[Aster @asterailabs]

@ycombinator @theregbase @ethshea @aresta_katz Congrats on the launch!!

[Aster @asterailabs]

@classiclarryd @photon_mz Happy to contribute!!

[Aster @asterailabs]

@shivambuilds Thank you!