Stanford's Paper2Agent turns research papers into queryable AI agents
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Paper2Agent, published in Nature on 16 September 2026, converts a paper and its codebase into an AI agent that reproduces results and runs on new data. The Stanford team was led by Jiacheng Miao and James Zou; the system is described as a virtual corresponding author.
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