A question goes in; a cited, long-form report comes out - GPT Researcher is an open-source autonomous research agent. A planner agent decomposes the query into sub-questions, execution agents crawl 20+ web sources in parallel with JavaScript-enabled scraping, and a publisher aggregates findings into a 2,000+ word report with inline citations, exportable to PDF, Word, and Markdown. The Deep Research mode extends this recursively: each result yields follow-up questions that are explored to configurable breadth and depth in a tree pattern, while accumulated learnings, citations, and visited URLs are shared across branches. It also researches local documents (PDF, CSV, Word) alongside the web. LLM and search providers are pluggable, including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, DeepSeek, and Ollama for models, and Tavily, Google, Bing, DuckDuckGo, and SearXNG for retrieval. It ships as a Python package, a FastAPI server with web frontend, a Docker image, and an MCP server for use inside Claude or Cursor. MIT-licensed.

Accepted as a NeurIPS 2025 Spotlight paper and rapidly approaching 6,000 GitHub stars, AI-Researcher from the Hong Kong University Data Science Lab delivers the first fully autonomous scientific research system — a multi-agent platform that takes a list of reference papers and returns a complete research contribution with working code, validated experiments, and a formatted academic manuscript. The pipeline orchestrates five distinct phases: a Resource Collector systematically gathers materials from arXiv, IEEE Xplore, ACM Digital Library, Google Scholar, GitHub, and Hugging Face; an Idea Generator performs gap analysis against semantic embeddings to produce 3-5 novel hypotheses with feasibility scores; an Algorithm Designer transforms concepts into functional implementations; a Validation Engine automates testing, performance evaluation, and iterative optimization; and a Manuscript Creator generates polished full-length papers with figures, tables, and citations. The Gradio-based web GUI provides intuitive tabs for environment configuration, example selection, and real-time monitoring of research progress, while the production deployment at novix.science offers immediate browser access without local setup. Scientist-Bench provides a standardized benchmark comprising state-of-the-art papers across diverse AI research domains for evaluating autonomous research capabilities. The system supports multiple LLM providers including OpenAI, Anthropic, Google Gemini, and OpenRouter models with per-task routing for cost optimization. Deploy via Python with pip dependencies or Docker containerization. Running on a dedicated VPS on RepoCloud with guaranteed CPU, RAM, and SSD, full root SSH access, and a browser serial console. Apache-2.0 licensed.