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FutureHouse and Google DeepMind publish multi-agent AI systems for end-to-end scientific discovery in new Nature papers, with Robin identifying ripasudil for macular degeneration and ERA generating 40 novel single-cell methods

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ERA also produced 14 models that beat CDC COVID forecasts.

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A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10658-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y

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Looks like nice progress from @EdisonSci folks!

Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›@andrewwhite01

Here's our engineering blog post with how we actually did all this: https://labs.edisonscientific.com/research/how-we-built-kosmos/

6:33 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 2.5K Views
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At the same time concerns about uncritical adoption, need for guard rails β€œThere is growing evidence that LLM-driven increases in scientific productivity often come at a cost.”https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-026-01557-x

Eric TopolEric Topol@EricTopol

A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10658-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y

5:44 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 17K Views
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Congrats to @SGRodriques and team @FutureHouseSF, @vivnat, @alan_karthi and team @GoogleDeepMind!

Eric TopolEric Topol@EricTopol

A big day for multi-agent AI to accelerate biomedical discovery, hypothesis generation, designing experiments with proof points of new candidate drugs (cancer, fibrosis, macular degeneration, antimicrobial resistance, and more) 2 @Nature reports @GoogleDeepMind @FutureHouseSF https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10658-6 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-026-10652-y

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Lots of news today. Don't have energy to write a hit tweet, so here's list

1. Our work on doing lab-in-the-loop with agents was published in Nature 2. We announced our first research partnership with a pharmaceutical company 3. We made new persistent code-writing agent

6:32 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 14.3K Views

Here's our engineering blog post with how we actually did all this: https://labs.edisonscientific.com/research/how-we-built-kosmos/

Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›@andrewwhite01

Lots of news today. Don't have energy to write a hit tweet, so here's list 1. Our work on doing lab-in-the-loop with agents was published in Nature 2. We announced our first research partnership with a pharmaceutical company 3. We made new persistent code-writing agent

6:32 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 14.3K Views
6:33 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 2.5K Views

@andrewwhite01 Congrats!!!!!!!!

Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›Andrew White πŸ¦β€β¬›@andrewwhite01

Lots of news today. Don't have energy to write a hit tweet, so here's list 1. Our work on doing lab-in-the-loop with agents was published in Nature 2. We announced our first research partnership with a pharmaceutical company 3. We made new persistent code-writing agent

6:32 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 14.3K Views
7:26 PM Β· May 19, 2026 Β· 368 Views
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