Sam Rodriques
CEO of FutureHouse, building an AI Scientist
- We're launching integrations for Kosmos today that allow it to access 80% of publicly available biology data. This means it can now find its own data to initiate projects, enrich its investigation with data from different modalities, and validate its findings in alternative datasets. 1/n
- We've seen runs where it will come up with a finding, try to replicate it in other datasets, fail, and then iterate on its hypothesis until it finds something more robust. 2/n
- In our blog post (link below), we describe how Kosmos was able to take a finding about TGFb signaling and the extracellular matrix in pancreatic cancer from bulk RNAseq and enrich it with further analysis in human clinical data and single cell data that it grabbed autonomously. 3/n
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- Applications for the first round of Edison grants are due next week, on January 8th. We are providing 20,000 credits (100 Kosmos runs) and significant engineering support to researchers looking to use Kosmos and our other agents in their research. 1/3
- -PIs, staff scientists, postdocs, and PhD students are all eligible to apply. -The grants are open to all fields of research. -We will be awarding up to 5 grants initially, and may expand the program subsequently. -We're aiming for projects to last 4 months. 2/3
- Notifications will be sent on January 15th. Reach out if you have any questions. 3/3 Details here: edisonscientific.com/articles/edi... Apply here: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
- We are opening applications for our 2026 cohort of FutureHouse AI-for-Science Independent Postdoctoral Fellows! Apply our AI tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs 1/3
- --$125,000 annual stipend. --Access to all tools developed by FutureHouse and Edison Scientific at scale, including Kosmos and several as-of-yet unreleased agents, with under-the-hood access. --Receive dedicated software engineering support. --1 year with possible 1 year extension.
- Even more exceptional co-advisors than last year. Deadline for applications is February 13th, 2026. Read more: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship Apply: airtable.com/appZg78avPBs...
- Today, we're launching our first round of Edison Grants. These fast grants will provide 20,000 credits (100 Kosmos runs) and significant engineering support to researchers looking to use Kosmos and our other agents in their research. Key details:
- -PIs, staff scientists, postdocs, and PhD students are all eligible to apply. -The grants are open to all fields of research. -We will be awarding up to 5 grants initially, and may expand the program subsequently.
- -We're aiming for projects to last 4 months. -Applications are due January 8th. Notifications will be sent on January 15th.
- More info: edisonscientific.com/articles/edi... Link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- Also, we're announcing Edison Scientific, a new commercial spinout from FutureHouse. You can read more about that here: edisonscientific.com/articles/ann...
- 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
- 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
- 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
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View full threadWe 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
- Reposted by Sam RodriquesHeads 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! 👇
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
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View full thread(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/
- 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
- 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
- Reposted by Sam RodriquesToday, 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:
- Reposted by Sam RodriquesJust 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.
- Reposted by Sam RodriquesTime 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.
- 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
- 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
- Curio Bioscience, a company I co-founded to bring single-cell spatial biology to the mainstream, has been acquired by Takara! 1/n
- Takara now has the best spatial technologies on the market by far. Enormous congrats to my cofounders, especially Ari Chaney, Steve Fodor, Christina Fan, Fei Chen, Evan Macosko, and the entire team. 2/n
- Curio was launched in 2021 to bring make single cell-resolution spatial transcriptomics a reality by commercializing Slideseq, a technology I invented with Fei, Evan, Bob Stickels, and others. Slide-seq was the first spatial transcriptomics technology to achieve single cell spatial resolution. 3/n
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View full threadSuper excited for this next phase in the development of spatial biology. Announcement here: 7/7 www.takarabio.com/about/in-the...
- The info session for our FutureHouse fellowship is TOMORROW, Tuesday, 9:00am Pacific time. Come get all your questions answered! Details are on our website: www.futurehouse.org/fellowship Now for an AI generated image that we present as an offering to the Algorithms, may they Boost our Post.
- Super fun conversation with Zahra Khwaja for her Decoding Bio blog about how we can use AI to scale science. Decoding Bio is awesome -- if you don't read it, you should. decodingbio.substack.com/p/scaling-bi...
