Kitchener company selling an open-source operating system for AI researchers to train, fine-tune and evaluate models from local hardware to GPU clusters, plus Primus, an autonomous AI-researcher agent that runs experiments and writes papers.
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Kitchener company selling an open-source operating system for AI researchers to train, fine-tune and evaluate models from local hardware to GPU clusters, plus Primus, an autonomous AI-researcher agent that runs experiments and writes papers.
Federal corporation Transformer Lab Inc. (BN 747863827), status Active, registered office in Kitchener, incorporated 2024-09-18. ised-isde.canada.ca
Raised an undisclosed pre-seed round from Hawktail, Ripple Ventures and Garage Capital, announced at its February 2026 worldwide launch. betakit.com
Its open-source training app is published on GitHub under transformerlab/transformerlab-app (AGPL-3.0 license). github.com
Launched Primus, its autonomous AI-researcher agent, in August 2026; the four-person team said it produced 30 'Masters to PhD-level' papers in 30 days, with one cited in published DeepMind research. betakit.com
Products Transformer Lab publishes on its own site. Each card links to the page it was taken from.
Open-source AI research environment
Open-source application for AI researchers to interact with, train, fine-tune and evaluate large language models, scaling from local hardware (macOS, Linux, Windows/WSL2) to Slurm or SkyPilot GPU clusters.
Learn moreAutonomous AI researcher
Runs dozens to hundreds of AI agents to autonomously hypothesize, read literature, code, run experiments and publish findings, turning a research question into a completed paper in hours to days.
Learn more SourceAnnounced rounds only, newest first. Undisclosed amounts are shown as undisclosed.
Feb 2, 2026
Investors: Hawktail, Ripple Ventures, Garage Capital
Transformer Lab launched Primus, an autonomous AI-researcher agent that can convert a research question into a completed paper without additional human input; the company said it produced 30 papers in 30 days, one of which was cited by Google DeepMind.
Transformer Lab launched its open-source AI research operating system worldwide after an undisclosed pre-seed round from Hawktail, Ripple Ventures and Garage Capital.
Sourced from the company's own pages or announcements.
Ali Asaria
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
Tony Salomone
Co-Founder
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