60seconds.That'sallweneed.
You'll hear from us within 24 hours. Promise.
Themanontheposter
Pekka Abrahamsson, Professor of Software Engineering, Tampere University.
- Founded GPT-Lab in 2023. It is now the largest AI research group in Finland. His team built the first newsroom in the world run entirely by AI, 24 hours a day.
- h-index 75. Over 22,700 citations. 25 years of research on how software actually gets built.
- Software Engineering Professor of the Year 2026. AI Researcher of the Year 2025 (AI Finland).
- Member of the Finnish Academy of Science and Letters.
- Scientific Director of STAR, Business Finland's flagship programme on AI in software.
- Advises ministers, media foundations and NATO StratCom on what generative AI does next.
I read every application myself. That is why the promise is 24 hours and not "we will get back to you".
Whatthisis
GPT-Lab is a research group at Tampere University that studies one question: what happens to software engineering, and to society, when machines can write, test, plan and decide. We do not write position papers about it. We build the systems, run them on real problems with real partners, publish the results and put the demos online.
VIVARIUM
A platform for watching what populations of AI agents do when left alone together.
ResearchEmergent agent behaviour observed at population scale.
60 researchers · 3 campuses · 5 countries · founded 2023
Whyyou'dwantthis
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You will publish. Doctoral students here co-author with a supervisor who has been doing this for 25 years and still reads every draft.
- 02
You will build. Every project ends in something that runs. Lovable, Claude, agents, whatever gets the prototype in front of a user fastest.
- 03
You will be funded. Positions are paid from active national and EU projects, not from hope.
- 04
You will be seen. Ministers, companies, the national press and international partners come to us to see what is next. You will be in the room.
- 05
You will move fast. A good idea on Monday is a demo on Friday. There is no committee between you and the build.
- 06
You will not be alone. 60 people, three cities, weekly demos, and a founder who answers messages.
This is not a department. It is a launch pad.
Whatwe'reoffering
60
researchers, one mission: removing humans from the loop, responsibly.
3
campuses — Tampere, Pori, Seinäjoki — and partners in Sweden, Norway, Brazil and Tanzania.
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bureaucracy between an idea and a prototype. We build, we publish, we ship demos and real solutions.
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problem space: software design and development, digital organizations, public sector and fraud simulation.
Whowewant
Builders. People who show a demo instead of describing one.
Thinkers. People who ask what generative AI does to software, to organizations, to society.
Finishers. People who publish, ship and move on to the next thing.
Degrees matter less than evidence.
Howitworks
Record 60 seconds.
Tell us who you are, what you want to do at GPT-Lab, and what evidence you have of your skills — a repo, a paper, a product, a thesis, anything real.
Hit send.
No CV required. Links welcome.
Hear from us in 24 hours.
A real human from the lab replies. Not a bot.
24 hours. Not "we'll be in touch". Twenty-four hours.
Iwantyou.Go.
- 0–20sWho are you?
- 20–40sWhat do you want to do here?
- 40–60sShow us your evidence.
Camera turns on only when you press REC.