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Sam Rodriques

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CEO of FutureHouse, building an AI Scientist

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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
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
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
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 · 26/11/2025
Find us at neurips... luma.com/lpf5yid0
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FutureHouse & Edison Scientific Happy Hour · Luma
Join us for drinks and good vibes in downtown San Diego on Thursday, December 4, from 7:00-10:30 PM. Meet Sam Rodriques (CEO) and Andrew White (CTO) from…
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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
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
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
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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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 · 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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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 · 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
Curio Bioscience, a company I co-founded to bring single-cell spatial biology to the mainstream, has been acquired by Takara! 1/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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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 13/01/2025
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.
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 10/01/2025
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...
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Scaling Biology 003: Sam Rodriques, Co-Founder and CEO at FutureHouse
On building an AI scientist.
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
People have been asking what kinds of projects we want to support with the FutureHouse Fellowship. We are building new AI tools for research, and we want outstanding early-career researchers to use those tools to make new scientific discoveries. Some possible examples: 1/6
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
First we had hypothesis-driven research. But our measurement techniques have become so high-throughput that investigating one hypothesis at a time seems poorly suited to the task. 1/n
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 07/01/2025
Still more amazing professors signing on as potential coadvisors for our FutureHouse Fellowship. Kind of insane: -Debbie Marks (Harvard) -Brian Hie (Stanford/Arc) -Jonathan Gootenberg and Omar Abudayyeh (Harvard) -Anima Anandkumar (Caltech) Apply! Deadline is Feb 14. www.futurehouse.org/fellowship
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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 · 06/01/2025
Today in the Timmerman Report -- why we need natural language, and not just DNA, RNA, and protein, to represent complex concepts in biology: timmermanreport.com/2025/01/ai-n... @luketimmerman.bsky.social has the best blog in the world for biotech. Amazing to be publishing something with him!
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AI Needs Natural Language to Give Structure to Biology - TimmermanReport.com
The word of the day, at least in the AI for Biology community, is foundation models. Everyone wants bigger data on more things to throw into bigger models. Virtual cell models will enable us to predic...
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 03/01/2025
Since we announced the FutureHouse AI for Science Fellowship, we've had a bunch more amazing professors sign on as potential co-advisors: Sergey Ovchinnikov (MIT) Ellen Zhong (Princeton University) Patrick Hsu (UC Berkeley/Arc Institute) Pratyush Tiwary (University of Maryland) 1/2
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
worst part of bluesky is spending 5 min deleting punctuation and coming up with clever abbreviations to get post under 300 character limit. this was a feature on twitter I never missed.
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 21/12/2024
The essential role of natural language in representing biology --AI-Science community all-in on bio foundation models, will no-doubt be awesome --However, the representation spaces in those models are too structured for most phenomena --Language will be essential, currently largely underappreciated
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The essential role of natural language in representing biology
At the time of writing, it is December 2024, and I am at NeurIPS. The word of the day, at least in the AI for Biology community, is foundation models. Everyone wants bigger data on more things to thro...
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 19/12/2024
FutureHouse is launching an independent postdoctoral fellowship program for exceptional researchers who want to apply our automated science tools to specific problems in biology and biochemistry, in collaboration with world-leading academic labs. 1/
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Freethink @freethink.com · 11/12/2024
Will AI come up with truly novel ideas? — Sam Rodriques (@SGRodriques.bsky.social) in conversation with Ross Pomeroy
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 03/12/2024
This is big: in collaboration with E11 Bio and @andrewcpayne.bsky.social, we are announcing today a new way to map brain circuits at scale. With improvements in AI and microscopy I think whole brain mouse and maybe human brain mapping will be feasible in ~5-10 years. 1/
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 02/12/2024
F1 cars are masterpieces of engineering, and Zak Brown and his team are legends, penalties notwithstanding. Had a blast at my first F1 race, hope to be back soon. Good luck next week in Abu Dhabi…
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
New on BioRxiv: We report a new, endogenous molecular clock in unmodified human cells and tissues. It is ticking away right now in almost every cell in your body. Paper here: www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1... 1/
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 19/11/2024
The next few years will see a huge transformation in how science works, on par with the enlightenment. FutureHouse is building AIs that can automate science and put the resulting knowledge into the open. Conversation with Freethink, now online here: www.freethink.com/artificial-i...
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Can we automate science? Sam Rodriques is already doing it.
People need to anticipate the revolution that’s coming in how humans and AI will collaborate to create discoveries, argues Sam Rodrigues.
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Sam Rodriques @sgrodriques.bsky.social · 18/11/2024
In September, FutureHouse hosted an AI-for-Science retreat with 8 billionaires, 2 Nobel Laureates, a Fields Medallist, and more. It was a resounding success. It was also hard. Today, we're releasing the FutureHouse Guide for Retreats and Conferences to help others host retreats in the future. 1/
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