Three Separate 'Open Science' AI Research Workbenches Were Created the Same Day and All Three Are Still Shipping

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synthetic-sciences/openscience (2,938 stars, 405 forks), aipoch/open-science (1,154 stars) and ai4s-research/open-science (1,031 stars) were all created on 2026-07-03, all describe a local-first model-agnostic AI research workbench, none are GitHub forks of each other, and all three were pushed on 2026-07-30. The largest runs the full loop — literature review, hypothesis, code, real-compute experiments, scientific-database queries and write-up — with research/biology/physics/ml specialist agents and no account required. A same-day three-way name collision that none of the three has abandoned four weeks later is a category-formation signal, and a naming hazard for anyone installing one.