About Emergent Mind

Emergent Mind is a product lab where I build experimental things with AI and share them with the world. Some are tools you might find useful, some are games, and some are just ideas I wanted to see exist. New ones ship most weeks.

It started in 2022 as an AI research assistant for arXiv, and that assistant is still here: it tracks new preprints, highlights trending papers, extracts open problems, and answers questions grounded in the literature. It's the first thing on the homepage, or you can go straight to /assistant.

The name goes back further than that. In 2014 Emergent Mind was a collection of simulations of emergent behavior, like boids, cellular automata and evolving creatures. They are still here, at the end of the list on the homepage.

Thanks to arXiv for their commitment to open science, Microsoft for Startups for their support with Azure, and OpenAlex and Semantic Scholar for citation data.

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Matt Mazur

Matt Mazur founder

Matt is the Model Testing and Analysis Lead at ARC Prize, a nonprofit that develops the ARC-AGI benchmarks and hosts competitions to measure and accelerate progress toward AGI. Based in North Carolina, he previously was the data lead at Help Scout, an engineer at Automattic, and a captain in the US Air Force. He holds a bachelor's degree in computer science from the US Air Force Academy.