Bohrium + SciMaster: Building the Infrastructure and Ecosystem for Agentic Science at Scale
Abstract
AI agents are emerging as a practical way to run multi-step scientific workflows that interleave reasoning with tool use and verification, pointing to a shift from isolated AI-assisted steps toward \emph{agentic science at scale}. This shift is increasingly feasible, as scientific tools and models can be invoked through stable interfaces and verified with recorded execution traces, and increasingly necessary, as AI accelerates scientific output and stresses the peer-review and publication pipeline, raising the bar for traceability and credible evaluation. However, scaling agentic science remains difficult: workflows are hard to observe and reproduce; many tools and laboratory systems are not agent-ready; execution is hard to trace and govern; and prototype AI Scientist systems are often bespoke, limiting reuse and systematic improvement from real workflow signals. We argue that scaling agentic science requires an infrastructure-and-ecosystem approach, instantiated in Bohrium+SciMaster. Bohrium acts as a managed, traceable hub for AI4S assets -- akin to a HuggingFace of AI for Science -- that turns diverse scientific data, software, compute, and laboratory systems into agent-ready capabilities. SciMaster orchestrates these capabilities into long-horizon scientific workflows, on which scientific agents can be composed and executed. Between infrastructure and orchestration, a \emph{scientific intelligence substrate} organizes reusable models, knowledge, and components into executable building blocks for workflow reasoning and action, enabling composition, auditability, and improvement through use. We demonstrate this stack with eleven representative master agents in real workflows, achieving orders-of-magnitude reductions in end-to-end scientific cycle time and generating execution-grounded signals from real workloads at multi-million scale.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2512.20469,
title = {Bohrium + SciMaster: Building the Infrastructure and Ecosystem for Agentic Science at Scale},
author = {Linfeng Zhang and Siheng Chen and Yuzhu Cai and Jingyi Chai and Junhan Chang and Kun Chen and Zhi X. Chen and Zhaohan Ding and Yuwen Du and Yuanpeng Gao and Yuan Gao and Jing Gao and Zhifeng Gao and Qiangqiang Gu and Yanhui Hong and Yuan Huang and Xi Fang and Xiaohong Ji and Guolin Ke and Zixing Lei and Xinyu Li and Yongge Li and Ruoxue Liao and Hang Lin and Xiaolu Lin and Yuxiang Liu and Xinzijian Liu and Zexi Liu and Jintan Lu and Tingjia Miao and Haohui Que and Weijie Sun and Yanfeng Wang and Bingyang Wu and Tianju Xue and Rui Ye and Jinzhe Zeng and Duo Zhang and Jiahui Zhang and Linfeng Zhang and Tianhan Zhang and Wenchang Zhang and Yuzhi Zhang and Zezhong Zhang and Hang Zheng and Hui Zhou and Tong Zhu and Xinyu Zhu and Qingguo Zhou and Weinan E},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.20469},
year = {2025}
}