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Kosmos, the AI scientist — autonomous literature and data-analysis research runs.

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Jun 12, 2026

The for-profit spinout commercializing nonprofit lab FutureHouse's scientific agents. Its flagship Kosmos runs autonomous research campaigns — iterating data analysis, literature search, and hypothesis generation across roughly 1,500 papers per run — and returns fully cited research reports. The Edison Platform took over FutureHouse's hosted literature agents, with the first Kosmos runs free for academic researchers.

Pros & cons

  • Every finding linked to code or citations
  • First six Kosmos runs free for academics
  • Lineage in FutureHouse's PaperQA agents
  • On-prem deployment for enterprises
  • SOC 2 Type II compliant
  • $200 per Kosmos run after the free quota
  • Synthesized conclusions ~58% accurate in validation
  • Focused on biology and chemistry domains
  • Runs take hours — built for depth, not speed

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