PhAI Labs releases Discovery Foundation Models tech report and scientist collaboration program
alifcoder · x · 2026-09-16
PhAI Labs released the technical report for Discovery Foundation Models (DFM), a research paradigm for AI systems that identify valuable unknowns, formulate questions, build hypotheses, design experiments, and revise understanding as evidence arrives—with experience carrying over across investigations.
Three independent research directions accompany the report:
- ScienceBuddy (Sep 16): an interactive science agent learning from scientists' follow-ups and accept/reject feedback
- ScienceIDE (Sep 17): turns real research code and workflows into runnable, measurable scientific environments
- JEPA-Anything (Sep 18): a unified scientific world model across vision, biology, molecules, physics
A DFM Scientist Collaboration Program opens alongside, focused first on life sciences and biomedicine, inviting scientists to bring real questions, data, and wet-lab feedback; the report includes a wet-lab case study.
Related event: PhAI Labs Releases DFM Report as Jeff Dean's DiscoveryLoop Valuation Soars(3 posts)→
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