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FirstPrinciples Appoints Victor Galitski as Inaugural Member of Scientific Advisory Board
FirstPrinciples announces the appointment of Victor Galitski as the inaugural member of its Scientific Advisory Board to provide guidance on technical direction and alignment of the AI Physicist with modern scientific standards.
FirstPrinciples Launches Fellowship Program for Researchers in AI and Physics
FirstPrinciples today announced the launch of the FirstPrinciples Fellowship Program for PhD or postdoctoral researchers in machine learning and physics who will work to build the core modules of the AI Physicist system and to help establish new standards for open scientific infrastructure.
FirstPrinciples launches Theo Collaborators Program to evaluate the AI Physicist’s scientific reasoning capabilities
FirstPrinciples announces the launch of the Theo Collaborators Program, a selective research collaboration designed to bring expert physicists into direct engagement with Theo, the AI Physicist.
John Templeton Foundation Partners with FirstPrinciples to Advance AI-Driven Discovery in Fundamental Physics
FirstPrinciples announced today a philanthropic grant from the John Templeton Foundation, marking early institutional support for the AI Physicist.
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Recent Articles
Between tools and theory: Reflections from the Machine Learning and the Physical Sciences workshop, NeurIPS 2025
A reflection on ML4PS 2025, where researchers in physics and machine learning grappled with the role AI should play in scientific discovery, and what it would take to move from process acceleration toward deeper scientific insight.
The AI Physicist reaches its first autonomy milestone (ahead of schedule)
The team at FirstPrinciples has reached the AI Physicist’s first autonomy milestone ahead of schedule, assembling the early loops of a system that will guide its own scientific reasoning from research to hypothesis and beyond.
The case for specialization: Building scientific AI that thinks like a physicist
Large Language Models have changed how we think, work, and do science, but can they truly reason like scientists? At FirstPrinciples, we’re exploring the limits of AI generalization and the promise of specialization through the development of the AI Physicist.
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