Sam Altman Promised an AI Scientist by 2028. This Team Just Shipped It
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Let’s talk about timing.
On October 28th, during a livestream, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced, “Hold my beer, we’re building a fully autonomous AI scientist by 2028”. A classic big-tech move: plant a flag on a distant hill to scare off the competition.
Well, it’s November 5, 2025—just eight days after that announcement. And a company you’ve probably never heard of, a spinout from FutureHouse called Edison Scientific, just shipped that exact product.
This is... awkward. And it’s brilliant.
Congratulations to the FutureHouse team. For everyone else in the “AI space”, it’s a little embarrassing. While the giants are talking about the future, the specialists are shipping it.
This isn’t just another product launch. It’s a strategic gut-punch to the entire “AI wrapper” economy. And if you’re a founder, hacker, or marketer, you need to pay very, very close attention.
The “6-Month-to-1-Day” Business Model
This new tool is called Kosmos. And it’s not a toy.
It’s not a chatbot. It’s not a “co-pilot”. It’s an “AI Scientist”.
What does that mean?
The team’s beta testers —real PhDs and postdocs— estimate that a single Kosmos run can accomplish what would take them 6 MONTHS of human work.
Read that again.
Six months.
In one day.
With 79.4% of its conclusions being accurate.
This isn’t an intern. This is an autonomous senior director. And it’s already making net new scientific discoveries.
We’re talking:
