Sam Rodriques

Also, we're announcing Edison Scientific, a new commercial spinout from FutureHouse. You can read more about that here: edisonscientific.com/articles/ann...

Edison Platform AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

Give it a try here: platform.edisonscientific.com

And read our paper: edisonscientific.com/kosmos-report

We have built this to accelerate science, and we think it's pretty neat. We are super excited to see what people think.

A single run can read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code. At least 79% of its findings are reproducible. We have already made major discoveries with it from clinical genetics to material science. And we are providing free tier usage for academic researchers.

Today, we're announcing Kosmos, our newest AI Scientist, available today. Kosmos makes fully autonomous scientific discoveries at scale by analyzing datasets and literature, and is the most powerful agent for science so far. Beta users estimate that Kosmos does 6 months of work in a single day.

Fellowship FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

We were blown away by the quality of the applicants for our fellowship. Thank you to everyone who applied -- stay tuned for the next round of applications next year. Read more here: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship 5/5

They will independently drive a project in collaboration with top academic labs around the country at Harvard, the Broad Institute, MIT, Stanford, and Caltech. 4/5

Each fellow will receive a $125k stipend, along with access to our wet lab and computational engineering resources, to research a specific question in biology or bioengineering using our agents. 3/5

Through the fellowship, we will support them in applying our AI agents at scale to make new discoveries in their domains of biology and bioengineering research. 2/5

Extremely excited to announce the recipients of the 2025 FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship! You might already know of them or their work, these are some of the absolute best rising stars in biology research today. 1/5

Heads up: terraforming Mars isn’t just sci-fi, it’s a real possibility that’s possible with today’s technology.

Mars could be green in MY lifetime. 🚀 🌼

What’s stopping us? We need a lot more real research into how to do it right. Don’t nuke Mars!

👇

Early Tester Sign-up Form – FutureHouse Data Analysis Agent We're launching a beta version of our latest addition to the platform – Finch, a data analysis agent built to fully automate open-ended, data-driven discovery in biology. We're seeking a select group ...

(And full disclosure, we have not independently validated the findings in the videos above!)

Sign up here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

8/

It also messes a bunch of stuff up. We need extremely talented bioinformaticians and computational biologists to help us evaluate accuracy and reliability, and to help us train it. Beta testers will also be able to use it for their own analyses. 7/

Like Crow, Falcon, and Owl, Finch is a bona fide agent. Users upload their data, and then Finch runs code, generates figures, inspects the results, and iterates until it has fully answered the question. For our own projects internally, we have found it to be pretty awesome. 6/

It identifies upregulated genes (e.g. inflammatory modulators, antimicrobial peptides) and downregulated genes (e.g. bile acid transport genes), and does a pathway analysis. Being able to do this in minutes is a superpower. 5/

In addition to open-ended analysis, Finch can also do directed data analysis. In this example, we had it do a differential expression and functional enrichment analysis of some RNAseq data (GEO accession GSE87466). 4/

Importantly, the prompt here is fully open-ended! We just ask the agent to explore the data. Similar to a first year grad student, it makes a bunch of silly mistakes, but also actually ends up finding some really cool stuff. And it works really fast by comparison... 3/

In the video, see how it independently reproduces key findings from the Golub Lab's 2020 MetMap paper, including the fact that ADAM28 deletions are associated with breast cancer metastases to brain (fig 4b of the original paper). It also identifies several novel findings not already in the paper. 2/

Introducing Finch, a new agent that fully automates data-driven discovery in biology. We are launching a closed beta for it today (sign up below).

This is still early, but impressive, maybe similar to a good 1st yr grad student. 1/

FutureHouse Platform AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

We are launching three benchmarked superhuman literature search agents today, and one experimental agent for chemistry. We have many more agents to release soon.

Read more on our blog post: www.futurehouse.org/research-ann...

and check it out at platform.futurehouse.org! 2/2

Today, FutureHouse is releasing the first dedicated AI Agents for Science, via our Platform. These agents are able to perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. With the platform, we are bringing these capabilities to the wider community. 1/2

Today, FutureHouse is launching the FutureHouse Platform, bringing the first-ever superintelligent scientific AI agents to scientists everywhere via a web interface and API. The Platform is launching with four agents, each with their own specialization:

Just Published: A look inside @FutureHouseSF, the nonprofit trying to build an AI scientist.

We sent a photographer to their HQ in San Francisco and interviewed both co-founders, @SGRodriques and @andrewwhite01.

Check it out in the link below.

Time for a LOT of microbe data! 📊 🦠 🤖

@alignbio.bsky.social is aiming to gather a core dataset composed of phenotypes for 1000 diverse microbes cultivated in 1000 diverse conditions.

This labeled data has the potential to take our ability to predict how microbes will behave to the next level!

Today NASA told us that they want to put our AI Scientist on Mars.

Cool.

Fellowship FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship applications close tomorrow, Friday, anywhere on Earth! Get your applications in! Super excited to see them... www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Fellowship FutureHouse is a philanthropically-funded moonshot focused on building an AI Scientist. Our 10-year mission is to build semi-autonomous AIs for scientific research, to accelerate the pace of discovery...

The FutureHouse AI-for-Science fellowship is due on Friday! Work on applying our AI science agents to make new discoveries, with full access to our compute, software engineering, and lab resources, plus $125k annual stipend. Make sure to get your applications in! www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Applications for the FutureHouse Independent Postdoctoral Fellowship are due in two weeks! $125k annual stipend, full access to our resources, be coadvised by world class professors and apply our AI science agents to make new discoveries. Apply!

Details here: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship

Super excited for this next phase in the development of spatial biology. Announcement here: 7/7

www.takarabio.com/about/in-the...

Another critical moment was Evan and Fei's invention of SlideTags, which provides bona fide single cell sequencing data with spatial resolution, and which is an enormous upgrade for spatial transcriptomics. 6/n

Once we launched the company, Steve, Ari, and Christina were absolutely masterful at execution. They went far beyond what we did originally at the Broad. 5/n