{"id":238417,"date":"2026-06-29T00:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/ai-scientist-company-edison-tapped-by-team-behind-metsera-to-create-biotechs\/"},"modified":"2026-06-29T00:45:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-29T04:45:09","slug":"ai-scientist-company-edison-tapped-by-team-behind-metsera-to-create-biotechs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/29\/ai-scientist-company-edison-tapped-by-team-behind-metsera-to-create-biotechs\/","title":{"rendered":"AI scientist company Edison tapped by team behind Metsera to create biotechs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/06\/29\/edison-scientific-population-health-partners-deal-to-create-new-biotechs\/\">AI scientist company Edison tapped by team behind Metsera to create biotechs<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/06\/29\/edison-scientific-population-health-partners-deal-to-create-new-biotechs\/\">https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/06\/29\/edison-scientific-population-health-partners-deal-to-create-new-biotechs\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-29 00:31:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.statnews.com\">www.statnews.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><em>CEO Sam Rodriques of FutureHouse, an AI scientist company, experienced skepticism when top-tier pharmaceutical companies offered $30 million to use their AI agents for drug discovery, showcasing the high interest in AI within the industry.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>Rodriques and co-founder Andrew White founded FutureHouse in 2023 with the mission to enhance scientific discovery through autonomous AI agents but pivoted to a commercial product, Edison Scientific, after realizing the demand from big pharma.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>The interest from large pharmaceutical companies indicates a competitive landscape where companies are willing to invest heavily in advanced AI technologies for drug discovery.<\/em><\/li>\n<li><em>FutureHouse&#8217;s spin-off Edison Scientific, created in late 2025, secured $70 million in venture funding, highlighting the commercial viability and the substantial market potential for their innovative AI solutions.<\/em><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AI scientist company Edison tapped by team behind Metsera to create biotechs https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/2026\/06\/29\/edison-scientific-population-health-partners-deal-to-create-new-biotechs\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":238418,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.statnews.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/AdobeStock_574188808-1024x576.jpeg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238417"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238417"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238417\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":238419,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238417\/revisions\/238419"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/238418"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}