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[Luke Thompson @ltthompso]

She has to be stopped.

[Hemingway Capital @lfg_cap]

My favorite part of the highly entertaining
@citrini Hormus post was undoubtedly this one:

“But I didn’t care. I would have gone to jail. I was so high on the fact that I’d actually been on the strait — that I’d done the thing, seen it with my own eyes, gathered information that nobody else had — that I felt nothing resembling fear. I went back to the empty hotel bar and drank eleven beers.”

[Emily Galvin-Almanza @GalvinAlmanza]

I don't get how people are planning to sidestep the very basic problem that if you don't have junior hires right now, you won't have experienced people 5 or 10 years later.

[JoeM @GeneralJoeM17]

Lloyds of London being out of the picture is bigger than you can imagine

[Berwyn Choobs @sabatonfan69]

*approaching my roommate in the dark with a half gallon* dude we only have six days left to drink this milk lol

[mike @jaret_michael]

@pdhsu Congratulations to you Thrive team!! Excited to follow along.

[mike @jaret_michael]

@KexinHuang5 @a16z @MenloVentures @AnthropicAI This is awesome!!

[The Soulful Mandrill @tinylittlehomie]

Hand up, I had no idea. That’s on me.

[Mr. S.T.A.R. @favelaoverlord]

you’re laughing. the Leviathan is waking up near Virginia and you’re laughing.

[Nelson Amenya @amenya_nelson]

US Secretary of State @SecRubio talking about the signed controversial MoUs that have just seen Pres. Ruto secure $1.6B in exchange for a 25 year long health care data and pathogen sharing.

[Sam Rodriques @SGRodriques]

Today, we’re announcing Kosmos, our newest AI Scientist, available to use now.

Users estimate Kosmos does 6 months of work in a single day. One run can read 1,500 papers and write 42,000 lines of code. At least 79% of its findings are reproducible. Kosmos has made 7 discoveries so far, which we are releasing today, in areas ranging from neuroscience to material science and clinical genetics, in collaboration with our academic beta testers. Three of these discoveries reproduced unpublished findings; four are net new, validated contributions to the scientific literature. AI-accelerated science is here.

Our core innovation in Kosmos is the use of a structured, continuously-updated world model. As described in our technical report, Kosmos’ world model allows it to process orders of magnitude more information than could fit into the context of even the longest-context language models, allowing it to synthesize more information and pursue coherent goals over longer time horizons than Robin or any of our other prior agents. In this respect, we believe Kosmos is the most compute-intensive language agent released so far in any field, and by far the most capable AI Scientist available today. The use of a persistent world model also enables single Kosmos trajectories to produce highly complex outputs that require multiple significant logical leaps. As with all of our systems, Kosmos is designed with transparency and verifiability in mind: every conclusion in a Kosmos report can be traced through our platform to the specific lines of code or the specific passages in the scientific literature that inspired it, ensuring that Kosmos’ findings are fully auditable at all times.

We are also using this opportunity to announce the launch of Edison Scientific, a new commercial spinout of FutureHouse, which will be focused on commercializing our agents and applying them to automate scientific research in drug discovery and beyond. Edison will be taking over management of the FutureHouse platform, where you can access Kosmos alongside our Literature, Molecules, and Precedent agents (previously Crow, Phoenix, and Owl). Edison will continue to offer free tier usage for casual users and academics, while also offering higher rate limits and additional features for users who need them. You can read more about this spinout on our blog, below.

A few important notes if you’re going to try Kosmos. Firstly, Kosmos is different from many other AI tools you might have played with, including our other agents. It is more similar to a Deep Research tool than it is to a chatbot: it takes some time to figure out how to prompt it effectively, and we have tried to include guidelines on this to help (see below). It costs $200/run right now (200 credits per run, and $1/credit), with some free tier usage for academics. This is heavily discounted; people who sign up for Founding Subscriptions now can lock in the $1/credit price indefinitely, but the price ultimately will probably be higher. Again, this is less chatbot and more research tool, something you run on high-value targets as needed.

Some caveats are also warranted. Firstly, we find that 80% of Kosmos findings are reproducible, which also means 20% are not -- some things it says will be wrong. Also, Kosmos certainly does produce outputs that are the equivalent to several months of human labor, but it also often goes down rabbit holes or chases statistically significant yet scientifically irrelevant findings. We often run Kosmos multiple times on the same objective in order to sample the various research avenues it can take. There are still a bunch of rough edges on the UI and such, which we are working on. Finally, we are aware that the 6 month figure is much greater than estimates by other AI labs, like METR, about the length of tasks that AI Agents can currently perform. You can read discussion about this in our blog post.

Huge congratulations to our team that put this together, led by @ludomitch and @michaelathinks: Angela Yiu, @benjamin0chang, @sidn137, Edwin Melville-Green, Albert Bou, @arvissulovari, Oz Wassie, @jonmlaurent. A particular shout out to @m_skarlinski and his team that rebuilt the platform for this launch, especially Andy Cai @notAndyCai, Richard Magness, Remo Storni, Tyler Nadolski @_tnadolski, Mayk Caldas @maykcaldas, Sam Cox @samcox822 and more.

This work would not have been possible without significant contributions from academic collaborators @mathieubourdenx, @EricLandsness, @bdanubius, @physicistnevans, Tonio Buonassisi, @BGomes_1905, Shriya Reddy, @marthafoiani, and @RandallBateman3.

We also want to thank our numerous supporters, especially @ericschmidt, who has been a tremendous ally. We will have more to say about our supporters soon!

[Roman Helmet Guy @romanhelmetguy]

The pope has failed to call a crusade, so power now devolves to Nicki Minaj.

[clover 🍀 @avaluciarevilla]

at uni in china i was summoned to provide my visa name before the council so i told them it was 威震天 (Wēi Zhèn Tiãn) eliciting a gasp and wide eyes as they asked who named me which ?? so i gave my mentor’s name and they sat me down to explain mf named me “megatron” 😭😭😭

[mike @jaret_michael]

@daltonc @paultoo @berg @Standard_Cap Wow. Congratulations

[mike @jaret_michael]

@mirandanover Unironically the best way to do it

[Eric Adams @ericadamsfornyc]

64 vs. 33. A lifetime of hard work vs. a silver spoon. The results speak for themselves.

The weight of the job is too heavy for “Mamscrawny.” The only thing he can lift is your taxes.

[Eren Bali @erenbali]

With AI, everybody will make their own software just like how we all 3D print our own furniture.

[mike @jaret_michael]

Is it a thing founders sell little slices of their equity at each funding round to get some cash out? I’ve heard it happen at series A round.

[mike @jaret_michael]

@malikules Do they sell shares at funding round or just post through a secondary transaction? Otherwise just seems like setting up for failure idk