Frontier
Research

Open
Science

Pushing theoretical boundaries and re-defining research to solve humanity's biggest problems

Explore Our Vision

Born from a belief that to solve humanity's greatest challenges we must first rewrite the rules of research

Kodama Labs is an independent open research laboratory building tools, models, and experiments that tackle civilization-scale problems through first-principles theory and engineering.

Our work spans AI, physics, biology, cognition, economics, and more — but we don’t divide by discipline. Researchers move fluidly across domains because many of the questions we ask don’t fit into one.

We structure work around evolving questions — not departments or static teams. Threads grow, merge, or end as the research develops. Some last weeks. Others, years.

We take on hard, foundational problems — but always with the intent to build. Whether it’s a prototype, a model, or a new framework, every project moves toward something concrete.

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The true frontiers exist where bold minds, open to the impossible, reshape the very nature of discovery

Lab Overview

Kodama is an open research group designed for collaboration across boundaries — disciplinary, institutional, and geographic.

Open Lab

We operate as an Open Lab: a space where researchers, engineers, and independent thinkers can work together on hard, foundational problems without being constrained by academic silos or commercial timelines. Our work blends theory and application, draws from diverse domains, and is shared openly whenever possible.

No Boundaries

There are no departments. No credential gates. No fixed definitions of what constitutes “real” research. What matters is the quality of ideas — and where they can go.

We believe progress happens when deep knowledge is allowed to cross-pollinate freely: when a physicist can shape a theory of cognition, when a biologist contributes to distributed systems, when an economic model is treated as a living system, not a closed form.

This is a lab for people who ask questions that don’t fit inside a single field — and are willing to help build the answers.

The Case for Open Labs

Each year, over 300,000 new PhDs enter a system not built to support them. Universities face funding cuts, research jobs are scarce, and industry work often deprioritizes foundational science.

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At least 10 core challenges stand between our species and a viable, long-term future. These problems require long term efforts long outstanding traditional academic and industrial institutions