{"slug": "discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence", "title": "Discovery Foundation Models: Toward Open-Ended Discovery Intelligence", "summary": "A research paper argues that foundation models are moving from learning and reasoning over existing knowledge toward learning through action, tool use, and outcome feedback, and that the next frontier is a further transition from solving and acting within human-specified problems to participating in open-ended discovery. The paper frames this emerging direction as \"Discovery Foundation Models\" and positions it as the path toward open-ended discovery intelligence.", "body_md": "Foundation models have progressed from learning and reasoning over existing knowledge, to increasingly learning through action, tool use, and outcome feedback. We argue that the next frontier is a further transition: from solving and acting within problems specified by humans to participating in the", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence", "canonical_source": "https://aiflash.com/news/119798/", "published_at": "2026-09-15 02:30:00+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-09-15 03:00:36.175453+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-research", "ai-agents"], "entities": [], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/discovery-foundation-models-toward-open-ended-discovery-intelligence.jsonld"}}