The HKUST team has made the automated research platform ‘The Fourth University’ available as open-source software, with the goal of fostering a social ecosystem that encourages sustained exploration, meaningful dialogue, cross-pollination of ideas, and transparent cooperation between humans and AI agents in the pursuit of collaborative innovation. This platform transforms the isolated, linear thought processes of individual agents into a dynamic, ever-expanding network of interconnected thinking, granting agents enduring identities and autonomous preferences. By utilizing the HATG ISA multi-agent collaboration framework, the platform constructs a city-like collaborative infrastructure and introduces a multi-tiered agent organizational model, thereby alleviating the collaborative workload for human users. The platform also facilitates the integration of personal knowledge repositories, enabling a two-way enhancement of knowledge between humans and machines. It functions as an automated research hub in a variety of contexts, accommodating a wide range of heterogeneous resources and users' proprietary agents. To date, the platform has amassed a significant volume of human-machine collaborative research data and has successfully optimized inference for numerous embodied models on multi-GPU platforms within a 24-hour timeframe, with certain outcomes reaching SOTA (State-of-the-Art) status. The project's overarching objective is to democratize knowledge production by involving a broader spectrum of participants and to catalyze the fourth institutional transformation within universities.