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FutureHouse

AI agents that automate scientific literature research and discovery.

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ScienceResearch
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FREE
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Cloud
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WebAPI
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Jun 14, 2026

FutureHouse is a nonprofit AI-for-science lab building AI agents that automate steps of the research process. Its free FutureHouse Platform exposes specialized agents — including Crow, Falcon, Owl, and Phoenix — for literature search, synthesis, and chemistry, plus Kosmos, an 'AI Scientist' that runs autonomous multi-step analyses. The agents are available through a web app and an open API.

Pros & cons

  • Free to use
  • Specialized science agents
  • Open API access
  • Strong lit-search benchmarks
  • Narrow to research workflows
  • Accuracy not guaranteed
  • Smaller model ecosystem
  • Newer platform

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    Edison Scientific

    Edison Scientific

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

    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.

    Worth knowing

    Spun out of the Eric Schmidt-funded nonprofit FutureHouse in Nov 2025, raising a $70M seed at a ~$250M valuation weeks later.

    • ai-scientist
    • literature-review
    • biology
    • drug-discovery
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    Elicit

    Elicit (formerly Ought)

    AI research assistant for literature review and evidence synthesis.

    Searches, summarizes, and extracts structured data across 125M+ academic papers, with sentence-level citations. Goes beyond chat-over-papers with a guided systematic-review workflow covering search, screening, extraction, and report synthesis. A free Basic plan offers unlimited search and summaries; paid tiers add data-extraction volume and the review pipeline.

    Worth knowing

    Spun out of Ought, a nonprofit AI-reasoning research lab, into an independent public-benefit corp in 2023.

    • research
    • literature-review
    • systematic-review
    • citations
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    Consensus

    Consensus

    AI search over 200M+ peer-reviewed papers, with citations.

    An academic search engine that runs natural-language questions against a corpus of more than 200 million peer-reviewed papers and synthesizes the findings with inline citations. Its Consensus Meter aggregates how much the studies agree or disagree, and a copilot helps draft literature reviews. Aimed at researchers, students, and clinicians.

    Worth knowing

    Founded 2021 by two Northwestern D1-athlete teammates; raised an $11.5M Series A in 2024.

    • research
    • academic-search
    • citations
    • literature-review
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    SciSpace

    SciSpace

    AI research assistant: search, read, and review the literature.

    AI workspace for academics that searches a corpus of 280M+ papers, runs literature reviews, and answers questions over PDFs with citations. Adds writing aids like a paraphraser and citation generator. Formerly Typeset.io; introduced agentic 'Deep Review' literature search in 2025. Free Basic tier with paid upgrades.

    Worth knowing

    Formerly Typeset.io; pairs a 280M-paper index with agentic 'Deep Review' literature search added in 2025.

    • research
    • literature-review
    • papers
    • citations
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