AI Research Atlas

Use the atlas from your agent

The atlas is also an MCP server. Connect Claude, ChatGPT, Cursor or any agent that speaks MCP, and it can read the day's AI news, search every checked launch since 2023 and cite the sources.

https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp

No sign-up for the last 14 days. An atlas key opens everything.

Connect

Pick your app. If you have a key, paste it here and the snippets below fill it in. It stays in this page.

Run this in a terminal. Add --scope user to use it in every project.

claude mcp add --transport http atlas https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp

On claude.ai or the desktop app, open Settings, then Connectors, then Add custom connector, and paste this URL.

https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp

Turn on developer mode in ChatGPT's settings (Apps and connectors, then Advanced), then create a connector with this URL and no authentication.

https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp

Add this to ~/.cursor/mcp.json, or to .cursor/mcp.json in a project.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "atlas": {
      "url": "https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add this to .vscode/mcp.json in your project, or run MCP: Add Server from the command palette.

{
  "servers": {
    "atlas": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

Add this to ~/.codex/config.toml.

[mcp_servers.atlas]
url = "https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp"

Most clients take a JSON entry like this. The transport is Streamable HTTP.

{
  "mcpServers": {
    "atlas": {
      "type": "http",
      "url": "https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp"
    }
  }
}

What your agent can do

Seven read-only tools. Every result carries ids for the next call, a link to the atlas page and the original sources.

What's new in AI whats_new

The latest AI releases and people moves, newest first, with a pointer to the latest daily brief. Use this first for any question about recent AI news. Each release has an id for get_release.

Try “What happened in AI this week?”

Search the atlas search_atlas

Search the atlas by meaning and keywords across releases, papers, people moves, daily and weekly briefs, lab profiles and the long pages. Returns the best matches with a snippet, a link and which tool to call next for the full record.

Try “Find what the atlas says about test-time compute.”

Daily brief get_daily_brief

The written daily brief for one day, explaining what happened in a few paragraphs, plus the other news of the day. Defaults to the latest day and lists the days that have a brief.

Try “Read me today's AI brief.”

Weekly brief get_weekly_brief

The written weekly brief, with the week in brief, the main stories and why they matter, people moves and what to watch. Defaults to the current week, which is revised daily until Sunday. Past weeks go back to January 2026.

Try “Summarise last week in AI.”

List releases list_releases

Filter the checked log of AI releases (models, open weights, products, features, papers, infrastructure) by lab, kind, modality, access, date and significance. Newest first by default, paged with a cursor.

Try “List every open-weights model from Chinese labs in 2026.”

Release details get_release

Everything the atlas has on one release, including what changed, each figure and who measured it, price, access, the sources it was checked against and related releases. Use ids from the other tools.

Try “Give me the full facts on Claude Opus 5.5 with sources.”

People moves list_people_moves

Researchers and executives who joined, left or founded AI labs, with dates, roles, why it matters and sources. Filter by organisation (either side of the move), person, kind of move, area and dates.

Try “Who left OpenAI this year, and where did they go?”

Pricing

Free

$0
  • The last 14 days of releases, people moves and briefs
  • 60 calls an hour
  • No sign-up, no key

Atlas key

$9.99 once
  • Everything since January 2023, updated daily
  • 5,000 calls a day
  • One payment, no subscription
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Details

How fresh is it?
The atlas updates once a day, around 20:30 UTC. Each record is checked against its sources before it goes in.
Which clients work?
Any client that speaks MCP over Streamable HTTP. The server answers protocol 2026-07-28 and the earlier versions back to 2025-03-26.
Where does the key go?
In the header Authorization: Bearer <key>. Apps that only take a URL can use https://atlas.prashish.xyz/mcp/k/<key> instead.
What is kept?
Each call your agent makes (the tool, what it asked for and when), to see what people look for and to apply the limits. Addresses are kept only as a hash.
For crawlers and agents
llms.txt describes the site and the server, and the server card describes the endpoint.