Sam Altman lauds Kosmos, the AI scientist who finds new disease clues and does months of work in a day

OpenAI chief Sam Altman has praised a major leap in artificial intelligence research after Future House unveiled Kosmos, a next-generation AI Scientist designed to speed up scientific discovery. In a post on Sunday, Altman called the development “exciting” and said systems like this would become some of the most important impacts of AI in the years ahead.

According to a detailed blog post published last week, Kosmos represents a significant upgrade over Future House’s previous AI Scientist, Robin, and is now being managed by Edison Scientific, a…