Andrew White 🐦⬛
@andrewwhite01
Head of Sci/cofounder @FutureHouseSF. Prof of chem eng @UofR (on sabbatical). Automating science with AI and robots in biology. Corvid enthusiast
At FutureHouse, we’ve noticed scientific agents are good at applying average intelligence across tasks. They always seem to make the obvious choices, which is good, but discovery sometimes requires more intuition and insight than average. We’ve made the first step today towards…
Credit to @m_skarlinski who led this effort - he's got the kind of attention to detail to do this difficult analysis on eval questions and is lead crow-keeper, making sure our system is very good at answering literature questions
HLE has recently become the benchmark to beat for frontier agents. We @FutureHouseSF took a closer look at the chem and bio questions and found about 30% of them are likely invalid based on our analysis and third-party PhD evaluations. 1/7
If the US government wants to lead the world in dataset creation as outlined in the AI Action Plan, open source the @NIST Chemistry WebBook today. Or at least make a purchase for download page.
Ok @sokrypton here's what I was thinking for doing protein folding with @midjourney video. beta-lactamase folding
🚨Do you want to learn more about general purpose models for chemistry?🚨 Look no further! 👀👀 Our comprehensive review of how these models are currently used is now live on arXiv! arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07456
Our team spent a massive amount of time to provide a review of what we call "general purpose models" for the chemical sciences. We explain fundamentals and go through applications and broader implications. arxiv.org/abs/2507.07456
🚨Do you want to learn more about general purpose models for chemistry?🚨 Look no further! 👀👀 Our comprehensive review of how these models are currently used is now live on arXiv! arxiv.org/pdf/2507.07456
1/4 🚀 Announcing the 2025 Protein Engineering Tournament. This year’s challenge: design PETase enzymes, which degrade the type of plastic in bottles. Can AI-guided protein design help solve the climate crisis? Let’s find out! ⬇️ #AIforBiology #ClimateTech #ProteinEngineering…
Unfortunately, the MLSB Workshop @ NeurIPS (@workshopmlsb) was rejected this year. Feedback from the deciding committee indicates it was a coin flip decision, with 283 proposals & a number related to “computational biology” More on the future of MLSB soon…
Excited to announce that I’m starting a new position as a senior fellow @FutureHouseSF. I’ll be working on applying AI agents to metagenomic workflows. Very grateful for the opportunity to learn and explore my scientific interests. Please reach out if you’d like to collaborate!