Aster is the first autonomous research lab — thousands of AI research agents orchestrated in parallel toward a single goal. We're on a mission to automate open-ended research: research that defines its own problems before it can answer them.
Aster is a Y Combinator company in the Spring 2026 batch. Its directory entry describes it as: Automating open-ended research. The founder listed is Emmett Bicker (Founder/CEO) (Y Combinator directory entry, April 8, 2026).
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Aster is the first autonomous research lab — thousands of AI research agents orchestrated in parallel toward a single goal. 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.
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Hey! I'm Emmett, I moved to SF when I was 18 to train large language models at Magic, and I just left to start my own company. I've been teaching myself machine learning since I was 15. I'm making tools that use AI to accelerate science at www.asterlab.ai. My ultimate vision for Aster is a system that will automate ten years of research over a single week.
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