FutureHouse previews an AI tool for ‘data-driven’ biology discovery

The tool, called Finch, takes in biology data (primarily in the form of research papers) and a prompt (e.g. “What can you tell me about molecular drivers of cancer metastasis?”) and runs code before generating figures and inspecting the results. In a series of posts on X, FutureHouse co-founder and CEO Sam Rodriques compared it to a “1st yr grad student.”

“[B]eing able to [do all] this in minutes is a superpower,” Rodriques wrote. “[Finch] actually ends up finding some really cool stuff […] For our own projects internally, we have found it to be pretty awesome.”