Sakana AI Scientist Paper Published in Nature — First AI-Generated Research Accepted at ICLR, Scaling Law Confirmed

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Sakana AI's 'AI Scientist' paper was published in Nature on March 26, 2026. The system autonomously searches literature, generates hypotheses, designs experiments, writes code, executes it, and produces full LaTeX papers. One of three submitted papers was accepted at the ICLR 'I Can't Believe It's Not Better' workshop with an average reviewer score of 6.33, ranking higher than 55% of human-authored submissions. A clear scaling law was demonstrated: paper quality improves directly with foundation model capability. Collaboration between Sakana AI, UBC, Vector Institute, and Oxford.