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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Blog: edisonscientific.com/articles/exp... Try it: platform.edisonscientific.com

Expanding Kosmos' Data Access Capabilities

Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

Read about it on our blog (link below), and try it on our website. Academics get three free runs per month. (It's also now way easier to try, since you don't have to have a dataset at hand to get Kosmos to do really interesting analysis.) 5/n

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

This allowed it to come up with a plausible mechanism for its initial finding using other datasets, all without human intervention. In our testing so far, it seems like a very significant unlock. 4/n

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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...

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Apply to the Edison Platform ACU Grant

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

-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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 02/01/2026

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

--$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.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 16/12/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

More info: edisonscientific.com/articles/edi... Link to apply: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

-We're aiming for projects to last 4 months. -Applications are due January 8th. Notifications will be sent on January 15th.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

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:

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Edison Platform

AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

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.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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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...

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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

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Erika DeBenedictis @erika-alden.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

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! 👇

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

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/

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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AI Agents for Scientific Discovery

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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

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FutureHouse @futurehousesf.bsky.social · 01/05/2025

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:

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Asimov Press @asimovpress.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

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.

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Erika DeBenedictis @erika-alden.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

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!

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 10/02/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

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

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

Evan, Fei and I were extremely lucky to link up with Steve Fodor in 2020, through an introduction made by Tony Kulesa. To all founders out there, I have said it before and I will say it again: Tony, Jamie Goldstein, and Pillar VC are among the best people you can have supporting you in the industry.

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Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. announces the acquisition of Curio Bioscience, adding spatial biology to its broad portfolio of single-cell omics solutions

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. acquired Curio Bioscience, a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics.

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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 29/01/2025

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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Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. announces the acquisition of Curio Bioscience, adding spatial biology to its broad portfolio of single-cell omics solutions

Takara Bio USA Holdings, Inc. acquired Curio Bioscience, a pioneering company in the field of spatial genomics.

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