SAN MATEO, Calif., March 18, 2026 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Autoscience announced today it has raised $14M in seed funding to automate the research and development of new machine learning models. The round was led by General Catalyst, with participation from Toyota Ventures, Perplexity Fund, MaC Ventures and S32. The company has created a virtual AI laboratory with non-human AI Scientists and Engineers that can invent, validate, and deploy specialized, state-of-the-art machine learning models.

For many machine learning teams, the primary bottleneck in artificial intelligence development is no longer compute or data, but the human capacity to create and test new ideas at scale. With more than 2,000 machine learning papers published every week, no human research team can effectively evaluate and implement every new breakthrough while advancing their own original hypotheses. Autoscience addresses this problem using two core AI systems: automated scientists that ideate and test new algorithmic ...