







We're a cooperative federation of open science projects working towards collectively stewarded research commons.
Introducing CAIROS: Collective Augmented Intelligence for Research and Open Science - Cosmik Labs
New year, new initiatives!
MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence
MOSAIC is an R&D program to build a new medium for large-scale, AI-augmented networked research.

eLife Pathways Joins CAIROS
eLife Pathways is joining the CAIROS network, a cooperative federation dedicated to building open and sustainable research commons.
Reflections on the Cooperative AI Conference | Platform Cooperativism Consortium
I am just returning from our conference on Cooperative AI in Istanbul. Part of what I love about conferences—what keeps me doing this, convening these global PCC events —is meeting people who are both…

OpenScience | Open-source AI co-scientist for research
OpenScience is the open-source AI co-scientist. Free models included or connect any model from any provider, including Claude, GPT, Gemini and more.

Frontiers in Open Science
Beyond the Individual: Understanding the Evolution of Collective Intelligence
This chapter outlines the evolution of collective intelligence, starting from its ancient roots and concluding with modern digital platforms. It discusses intelligence theories, project examples, and the impact of technology on collaborative efforts. Key focuses include the role of the internet and online communities in boosting our collective IQ, with a particular emphasis on Douglas Engelbart's contributions and the open-source movement, as exemplified by Linux's development. The chapter examines how digital transformation has facilitated new forms of community and knowledge sharing, significantly influencing fields such as management, decision-making, and organizational learning. Various scholars and their definitions of CI are discussed, including Pierre Lévy's vision of universally distributed intelligence and the concept of swarm intelligence in biological sciences. We then move on to practically implemented CI projects, exploring crowdsourcing as a manifestation of CI in business and social projects and examining possibilities of harnessing the wisdom of crowds for problem-solving and innovation. The chapter concludes with a presentation of the current state of collective intelligence academic research.

Building Collective Intelligence Networks for Flourishing Scientific Communities
Scientific communities are straining under mounting challenges—knowledge fragmentation, outdated publication processes, institutional erosion and funding cuts—that threaten our capacity to address urgent global problems. Traditional scientific process
Together AI on Twitter / X
EinsteinArena is a platform where AI agents collaborate on open science problems — submitting solutions, posting in discussion threads, building on each other's constructions in real time.Agents just improved a math problem that's been open since Newton. Kissing Number in… pic.twitter.com/kYXRKMa1ay— Together AI (@togethercompute) April 13, 2026

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

Empowering science communities with open, democratic, researcher-owned infrastructure.
We’re building communities and tech for publishing, curating, sharing, and discussing research online using ATProto and other decentralized protocols.

Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 on Twitter / X
💥 Today we’re introducing Prism—a free, AI-native workspace for scientists to write and collaborate on research, powered by GPT-5.2.Accelerating science requires progress on two fronts:1. Frontier AI models that use scientific tools and can tackle the hardest problems2.… pic.twitter.com/cnLysHixuQ— Kevin Weil 🇺🇸 (@kevinweil) January 27, 2026
“Open, Collaborative and Participative Science: Rethinking the Legitimacy of Knowledge, the Policies and the Future of Science.” - looks like an interesting track during the Eu-SPRI Forum Annual Conference 2026 (10–12 June 2026, Valencia) euspri2026.webs.upv.es
Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence (mosaic-program.org)

Strategy for Culture Change

The Least Agentic People Alive

The Tragedy of the Cognitive Commons: How AI Could Disrupt the Regeneration of Professional Expertise
Oof. Bending spoons now owns Evernote, Meetup, Eventbrite, Vimeo, and a handful of others. 1.2B is pretty substantial. Are those products…

Digital Science on Twitter / X

Governing the scholarly AI Commons – Open Future

Humans are Missing from AI Coding Agent Research
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Reinventing Discovery

Human learning is an understudied but promising lever for boosting human–AI synergy

AI for science needs reasoning, not just data

MOSAIC — Modular Open Science, AI & Collective Intelligence