Organization
FutureHouse
Research lab · Nonprofit research · Model developer · Open-source steward · San Francisco, California
FutureHouse is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research lab in San Francisco, founded in 2023, that builds AI systems intended to automate parts of scientific research, with a focus on biology. Its open releases include the PaperQA literature-agent package and the ether0 chemistry reasoning model.1257
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Key facts
- Legal name
- Future House Inc (as listed in the IRS exempt-organization extract)11
- Ownership (separate from openness)
- Nonprofit
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- Legal form
- Corporation recognized by the IRS as tax-exempt under Section 501(c)(3), classified as a publicly supported organization (170(b)(1)(A)(vi)) in the IRS exempt-organization extract.11121
- Founded
- 20231
- Sectors
- Science, Research, Agents, Open models
What is and isn’t public
FutureHouse publishes the PaperQA code under Apache 2.0 and the ether0 model weights and reward-function code under Apache 2.0, with the ether0 benchmark under CC BY 4.0. The ether0 training code and full training data are not published. See the PaperQA and ether0 records; this catalog does not assess openness for the organization as a whole.678910
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Cataloged artifacts
Model families
- ether0Model family
Model releases
- ether0 (24B)Model releaseAvailability: PublicModel-disclosure tier (USASI rubric v0.2): Open-weight
Frameworks
- PaperQA (paper-qa)SoftwareAvailability: Public
Notable documented facts
- In November 2025 FutureHouse announced Edison Scientific as a commercial spinout to develop and deploy its AI Scientist work for commercial use, with part of the FutureHouse team moving to Edison. FutureHouse describes the two as independent organizations with separate missions, operations, and governance that share office space.21
- Edison Scientific's February 2026 PaperQA3 announcement describes the open-source PaperQA repository as the underlying algorithm of its literature agent. In the repository's discussions, maintainers stated in July 2026 that there were no plans to open-source PaperQA3.34
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U.S. eligibility
Eligible · basis: U.S. nonprofit or lab
FutureHouse describes itself as a 501(c)(3) nonprofit research lab in San Francisco. The IRS exempt-organization extract for California lists Future House Inc at a San Francisco address with subsection code 03 (501(c)(3)). Its for-profit spinout, Edison Scientific, is a separate organization and is not covered by this record.11112
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