FirstPrinciples

FirstPrinciples is an independent, non-profit research organization established in 2024 by Ildar Shar. Dedicated to understanding the fundamental nature of reality, the organization blends advanced artificial intelligence with fundamental physics to build the "AI Physicist"—an AI system designed to scale the process of scientific discovery. Operating with the agility of a tech startup and the purpose of a non-profit, FirstPrinciples is an "AI-first by design" and remote-first team. They actively collaborate with academic and research institutions worldwide, maintaining open-source tools, datasets, and simulation environments to advance scientific reasoning, symbolic regression, and equation discovery.