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Every developer has an IDE. Researchers never had one. We don’t need another research agent, but a full stack workstation powered by AI. Today we're launching Orchestra Orchestra Reseach, the world's first Research IDE 🔬🧵

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

Research is an infinite game. Open-ended by nature. Long-horizon by necessity. You're constantly cycling between reading, brainstorming, executing, interpreting, rethinking — and every single step demands real depth. No tool was ever built for this. We built one.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

Orchestra @orch_research is the first platform where you direct AI agents the way a PI directs a lab. You set the research direction. A project manager orchestrates your agents — they explore different hypotheses simultaneously, run real experiments on GPUs, and report back with results and plots. You stay commander-in-chief.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

At the center: a living research canvas where every hypothesis, dead end, pivot, and breakthrough is captured as your research grows. Powering it: 86 open-source research skills — from idea generation to literature review to RL training to distributed inference. The most popular AI research skills library on GitHub (6,000+ ⭐). From the first question to the final experiment, Orchestra covers the full arc.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

This is just the beginning. We're building the foundational platform for a future where humans collaborate with AI to push the frontier, AI agents collaborate with each other to explore at scale, and researchers everywhere collaborate across borders and disciplines. The next scientific breakthroughs won't come from one genius in a lab. They'll come from orchestrated intelligence — human and artificial, working together 🔭

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

🔬 Website: 📖 Blog: 🎬 Demo: ⭐ AI Research Skills:

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

Grateful to everyone who made this possible: a long and open-ended journey with @JIACHENLIU8 , and supported by @vercel @nvidia @pearvc And to our early users and beta testers — you shaped this product. Thank you 🙏 If you know researchers who deserve better tools, tag them below 👇

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Sharat5 months ago

@orch_research I tried this out after the demo at OpenClaw Boston meetup. Its great for finding related research and structure your project. This is auto-research-management vs. auto-research-a-la-karpathy . Great work @ZechenZhang5

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research thank you for the kind words!

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Delta5 months ago

@orch_research Congrats, Zechen!!

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@DeltaInstitutes @orch_research Thanks! Congrats on the insane talent accumulation at Delta!

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Nad5 months ago

@orch_research Great start! My agent got stuck so submitted some feedback. Have you thought about a bring your own model approach? Might be great for iterating with more reasoning traces as well.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Thanks I will take a look it you can DM me your account. Yeah that's an option we are thinking of, in some forms of open sourced platforms

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c_Up1d5 months ago

@orch_research Huge shoutout to Zechen for building this. It's genuinely one of those tools that makes you wonder how you ever got by without it. Beyond just a nice utility, orchestra is a whole research workflow in one place. This is going to save researchers a ton of time.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Thank you for the support!! 🙏

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Jasnowidz5 months ago

@orch_research humans are just bottlenecks in research, creating IDEs for them is sabotaging process

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research until AI truly automating everything in research, until then we need IDE..

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Jasnowidz5 months ago

@orch_research Cool project, probably until we see what openAI is cooking. I would try it out and use it if I could use my claude subscription with it, without breaking ToS. And if it would perform gemini deep researches on demand for free. Until then I guess I'll live in VSCode, sry, good luck

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research 🔥🔥

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@orch_research Awesome work! Can I fund this via pf?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@kyuxloll @orch_research open to discussion!

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wuzhongze5 months ago

@orch_research Very useful product!

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Thank you!

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tamhn5 months ago

@orch_research the PI metaphor is right. built something similar for a client in market research, you set direction, agents run parallel experiments. the bottleneck is always figuring out what question to ask, not running the experiment.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Wow great minds think alike

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Shubhanshu Khatana5 months ago

@dhruvtrehan9 @orch_research this is great

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@dhruvtrehan9 @orch_research thank you!

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alli5 months ago

@orch_research Let’s goooo!!!

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Ao Fu5 months ago

@orch_research Great work!!! This is huge.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Thank you!

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amber shen5 months ago

@orch_research Awesome work!

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research 🙏

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罗杰斯5 months ago

@orch_research Shouldn't it be called "IRE"? Integrated Research Environment?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Haha that's a better word

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gootecks5 months ago

@orch_research this looks really cool! and also two notches above my paygrade lol

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research What if I say you can use it now for free 🤔

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Vahisht Tamboli5 months ago

@orch_research Will use it for my research in the Mathematics domain and share my experience with you 💯

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research that's great! I think it would is particularly helpful to run theory and computational simulations comparison

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Tanmay5 months ago

@orch_research Ofcourse the demo starts with continual learning lol

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research good eye. that's intentional demo 🦞

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Morteza Hosseini5 months ago

@orch_research Cool

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research 🔥

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Alexander Johonnuson, Founder & CEO5 months ago

@orch_research Congrats.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research 🙏

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Sovren Software5 months ago

@orch_research This reshapes how researchers work day to day

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Try it out!

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Abhishek Shankar5 months ago

@orch_research can i try this?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research yeah it's open in public beta

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λux5 months ago

@orch_research this is awesome!! congrats on the release 🙌🏻

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Thank you🙏 hope to push it further for and with the research community!

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Erick Holz5 months ago

@orch_research Damn, I didn't finish my research IDE on time and you guys got first. Good job though and good luck.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research haha great minds think alike. There are probably many people working on it. Join us for the journey!

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Erick Holz5 months ago

@orch_research Mine is little different though. Let‘s see how it turns out!

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Pablo Pablo5 months ago

@orch_research Building it isn't the hard part. Researchers are creatures of habit with deeply embedded stacks. The challenge is migration, not functionality.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Agree 💯

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Sinuhet5 months ago

@orch_research A true research IDE would have to be a standalone app with possibility use it offline and/or with local LLM. A serious research cannot run in cloud from confidentiality point of view. Like medical research for example or anything which deals with prospective IP rights.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research this is a starting point of exploring all-on-cloud research. I think we would have both in the future

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Sinuhet5 months ago

@orch_research Glad to hear it because for proper medical anything in the cloud, particularly if it has patients data, is no go. I wish you good luck!

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Xiaohu Zhu ⏹️ CSAGI5 months ago

@orch_research Cool.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research thank you 🙏

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Harsh5 months ago

@orch_research This is very interesting, would love to give it a try

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Let me know!

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Junyuan "Jason" Hong5 months ago

@orch_research Indeed useful!

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Renat Lotfullin5 months ago

@orch_research will it be free or paid plans coming?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research You can try it for free and we have subscription plans. All details in our app

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Victor Trades 📈5 months ago

@orch_research Is this only for AI/ML research?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research It's for all digital research but workflow might be tailored more for AI/ML

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Pochi5 months ago

@orch_research he unbundling of the ide is happening. vs code can't just be the interface for every single knowledge work taskk

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research exactly

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ᕼ ᐱ ᖇ Ƨ ᕼ ᐱ5 months ago

@orch_research Sounds amazing but might wanna check your auth setup

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research thanks for letting me know. this seems to be the github repo link? or was it during you trying to sign in Orchestra?

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ᕼ ᐱ ᖇ Ƨ ᕼ ᐱ5 months ago

@orch_research Yeah it’s during sign up from landing page

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research Wait just realized you didn't input any account names? Try signing in with Google

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ᕼ ᐱ ᖇ Ƨ ᕼ ᐱ5 months ago

@orch_research erm github sso doesnt need any account name tho. the error is redirect uri invalidation which is a configuration issue, are you using an auth provider like clerk or workos? or better auth?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research my bad. you were trying to sign in with Github right? I've fixed the redirect bug. Now you can sign in with Github! Let me know if there are further issues!

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Howard5 months ago

@orch_research 1. Can I use my Claude subscription there? 2. Can it fetch the content that is on @x or YouTube?

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@0xhoward @orch_research @X 1. not yet 2. yes try it out

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Ezana5 months ago

@orch_research yoooo, this is game changing in research space and it was created with much care and love, beautiful.

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Zechen Zhang5 months ago

@orch_research thank you ❤️

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