FutureHouse Launches “AI Scientist,” An Agent To Accelerate Scientific Progress

The non-profit organization FutureHouse launched AI Scientist on Thursday, a program featuring four AI agents designed to help scientists accelerate research and make new scientific discoveries. The agents, Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix, have different specializations and were built for various purposes, and can help automate research.

FutureHouse’s CEO and co-founder, Sam Rodriques, shared more details about the new technology in a post on the social media platform X.

“We are launching the first publicly available AI Scientist, via the FutureHouse Platform,” wrote Rodriques. “Our AI Scientist agents can perform a wide variety of scientific tasks better than humans. By chaining them together, we’ve already started to discover new biology really fast. With the platform, we are bringing these capabilities to the wider community.”

Rodriques explained that Crow is a general-purpose agent that provides concise answers, Falcon automates literature reviews and offers deep analysis, and Owl helps scientists verify what studies or research have been conducted on a given topic. Phoenix is an experimental agent specializing in chemistry.

“The three literature search agents (Crow, Falcon, and Owl) have benchmarked superhuman performance,” added Rodriques. “They also have access to a large corpus of full scientific texts, which means that you can ask them more detailed questions about experimental protocols and study limitations that general-purpose web search agents, which usually only have access to abstracts, might miss.” The agents can also verify quality and avoid reliance on low-quality papers.

FutureHouse also released an API to help researchers and scientists integrate the AI agents into their workflows.

Rodriques clarified that the AI agents released by FutureHouse cannot yet operate autonomously, but they are capable of performing complex tasks. The organization expects to roll out further updates and improvements soon. The platform is currently free to use, although pricing plans may be introduced in the future. The team also shared a video demonstrating how to use the technology with applied examples.

Watch our team explain how you can use the FutureHouse Platform to come up with new hypotheses and make new discoveries. pic.twitter.com/2fA5Sne6DE

— Sam Rodriques (@SGRodriques) May 1, 2025

Multiple companies and organizations are developing scientific advances boosted by artificial intelligence. Recently, Swiss researchers developed a system to detect planets that may harbor life in other planetary systems, and another study based on a Google AI model is attempting to decipher communications between dolphins.