Transformer Lab Ships Primus: Kitchener-Waterloo Startup Automates Research With AI Agents

Transformer Lab, a four-person AI lab from Kitchener-Waterloo, launched Primus, an autonomous research tool that connects users with AI agents capable of producing what the company calls "Masters to PhD-level" research papers. The tool, which went live today after two years of development, runs dozens or hundreds of different AI agents—some tiny, some frontier models from major providers—to turn a single prompt-based research question from hypothesis to completed paper in "hours...