Sapient Intelligence launches PRAXIST Beta for autonomous AI-led R&D

Sapient Intelligence launched a system that autonomously explores, tests and validates technical solutions against user-defined goals and budgets.

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The company reports that PRAXIST achieved the highest-level result in 49 of 75 MLE-Bench competitions at an approximate model cost of US $3,000, compared with 34 results for Claude Code at about US$ 38,000. Sapient also reports a rocket-landing simulation reaching 100% accuracy within 12 hours, but these results are company-reported and preliminary.

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Systems that search over experiments rather than simply execute predefined tasks would extend AI automation into scientific and engineering discovery, if independent evaluations confirm the claims.

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