Tuva AI

Agentic research collaborators for every human scientist

[Vamsi Varanasi @feynmanpoint]

Today, we’re launching @TuvaAI to build a human-centric future for agentic science.

Humans collaborating with AI can learn more than either working alone: humans guiding the research, equipped with agents that can test ideas quickly and autonomously, will deliver the next wave of scientific discovery. But science is all about the details. Neither Einstein nor AGI can drive your project forward without intimately understanding your growing, interrelated web of hypotheses, intermediate results, working threads, failed experiments, datasets, notes, and water cooler conversations.

Our first product, Rao, was born out of my frustration having to reteach LLMs these constantly changing details for every single task in my own research. Rao maintains a persistent, dynamic research memory that learns and remembers project context, history, and threads. This research memory then links into our scientific agents as well as other AI software you may already be using, such as Claude or Codex. With Rao, every scientist turns into a PI managing a proactive, agentic research team that automatically stays on the same page.

Rao is live in VS Code and by CLI, and can help with any scientific task that can be done in a computer. Our early users include computational biologists, theoretical neuroscientists, chip designers, and polymer physicists who use Rao daily to ideate, do math, analyze data, and write papers and grants.

Now, we’re excited to announce Rao in closed beta. If your science mostly happens in a computer—theory, computational modeling, experimental data analysis, scientific writing—Rao can help you discover more, faster. Sign up for our waitlist, and if you’re a fit, we’ll work with you to tailor new, contextual agents that augment the way you do science. Link in the comments.

More personally: I’ve been doing scientific research since I was a kid. Scientists do so much for the world, choosing a painstaking career for the joy of discovery, developing technologies we use every day along the way. And yet, the tools scientists use are often cumbersome and woefully out of date. For me, Tuva is much about empowering the people of science with products they love as it is about the discoveries we’ll help them make. And I’m lucky to work with some wonderful humans along the way—@SamsaraDurvasu1 @anuvellore @KimchiOfer among many others. If our mission resonates, please reach out.