James Braza
Second author of FutureHouse's ether0 chemistry model and contributor to its open-source agent tooling
- EECS PhD student, Massachusetts Institute of Technology1
James D. Braza is an AI researcher and an EECS PhD student at MIT, according to Braza's GitHub profile. At FutureHouse, Braza was second author of "Training a Scientific Reasoning Model for Chemistry" (2025), which introduced the ether0 model, and of the Aviary paper (2024) on training language agents, and contributed to the ether0, Aviary and LDP repositories.12346
Research and engineering
Braza's site lists FutureHouse projects including Aviary and LDP (December 2024), on training language agents on challenging scientific tasks, and ether0 (June 2025), on training a scientific reasoning model for chemistry. Braza is second author on both papers, whose ether0 version lists FutureHouse as the affiliation, and contributed code to the Aviary, LDP and ether0 repositories.2634758910
Earlier projects on Braza's site include Configurator (2024), a toolchain for quality assurance across research and production settings. Braza's GitHub profile now lists the role of EECS PhD student at MIT.21
Work
ether0 (24B)Open weights
Second author of the ether0 paper and a contributor to the open-source ether0 repository, which holds the model's reward functions.35102
Aviary and LDP (external site: github.com)Open-source code
Second author of the Aviary paper (2024) and a contributor to FutureHouse's Aviary and LDP repositories for language agents.67892
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Other documented roles
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- Researcher (affiliation on the 2025 ether0 paper), FutureHouse42
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