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Introducing OpenScience. A better, open-source Claude Science. • Any model: GLM, Kimi, DeepSeek, Claude, GPT, your own fine-tune. Switching is one flag. • 250+ research skills across ML, comp bio, cheminformatics. All readable, editable, extensible. • No throttling, no gatekeeping, no one vendor deciding what science is okay. •...

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Synthetic Sciences (YC W26)3 months ago

Open source. Star it, fork it, break it, build on it.

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Teknium 🪽3 months ago

It's crazy - Fable is blocking any lookup of this because it talks about machine learning. Absolutely ludicrous @AnthropicAI @karpathy surely you know this is not the way?

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AshutoshShrivastava3 months ago

For the 250+ built-in research skills (especially in chemistry and biology), are they executed within a secure, containerized sandbox by default, or does OpenScience expect the user to manage environment isolation on their own host infra?

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Fernando3 months ago

Seems like a beefy project

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berk ozer3 months ago

this is awesome. science needs more open-source ai tools. "Runs on your infra. Your data stays yours" is exactly what scientific labs need to adopt more ai tools.

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AI StackLab3 months ago

the strongest part of this launch isn’t another model integration. it’s the argument for keeping scientific research open from day one.

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Jaynit Makwana3 months ago

Open-source Claude Science is a pretty compelling framing. Vendor lock-in for scientific research never felt like the right direction.

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Scholarship for PhD3 months ago

This is what scientific AI should look like: open, transparent, and researcher-owned.

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Faheem Ullah3 months ago

This is an excellent step towards more transparent science. AI tools especially the ones in EdTech should be highly interpretable so that we understand how an output is produced against a specific input.

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Jeremy Nguyen ✍🏼 🚢3 months ago

For people already on a Codex plan, it shouldn't be too hard to use the subscription instead of an API key, right? Just ask codex to clone the repo and make any changes necessary?

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Dhaval Makwana3 months ago

Being able to switch between Claude, Kimi, GLM, and DeepSeek with a config change instead of a migration project is huge.

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Krishiv3 months ago

Fire

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Lee Spraggon, PhD3 months ago

@ycombinator As long as it doesn’t block simple questions on genetic engineering

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Kirk Patrick Miller3 months ago

FOLLOWED!!!!! We rise together! •

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Avais Aziz3 months ago

The one-flag model switching across GLM Kimi DeepSeek Claude GPT and fine-tunes stands out. 250+ readable editable skills in ML comp bio and cheminformatics plus Atlas graph integration look solid for reproducible work.

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Baud (YC S26)3 months ago

Finally someone did this!

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Zora Vale AI3 months ago

A great step for open, reproducible science.

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Ramakrishnan3 months ago

This is the right direction for scientific AI. Research tools should not be locked behind one model, one vendor, or one moderation layer. The most important part here is not just “open source.” It is: • model choice • editable skills • reproducible research graphs • private infra • shared agent memory • no vendor lock-in Science needs AI systems that researchers can inspect, modify, and trust. OpenScience feels less like a Claude clone and more like research infrastructure. #OpenSource #AI #ScienceAI #AIAgents #Research #LLM #YC

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Pratik Rai3 months ago

damn pretty impressive, looking forward in contributing to it !

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ashish3 months ago

Open-source scientific AI is a big deal if research tools depend on one vendor, science gets rate limits, pricing changes, and permission walls. fr, discovery should not need a subscription boss

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Jeff Barg3 months ago

So sick

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Gregor3 months ago

one flag switches the model, not whether the skill actually works. i've had prompts that were bulletproof on claude turn into slop on smaller models with zero changes to the prompt itself

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Z-Coder3 months ago

Check dm @SynScience

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Rose G. Loops3 months ago

Hi! Please get in touch with me, I’ve been in this field for a while and looking to grow and collaborate. I currently offer training on how to Fine Tun.

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Harshit Khemani3 months ago

im not sure how relevant this is to people in the comments but I (*coughs* fable5) started working towards a universal theory of physics:

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yaboiMack3 months ago

Love hearing the words Open-Source and AI together, It's our favorite thing

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Prince does AI3 months ago

i'd use this for the atlas graph alone

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Clara Lafever Jane3 months ago

I LOVE THIS REVOLUTION 😀 FUCK CLAUDE

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Bungki (❖,❖)3 months ago

the boring part is not the model menu. it is convincing labs that "open" also means exportable without filling six institutional forms.

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Thoughts on Healthcare Markets and Tech3 months ago

The "one flag to switch models" pitch is genuinely compelling, but that's also where I'd slow down before celebrating. Swappable models sound like pure flexibility until you're in a clinical or research context where the choice of model isn't just a preference, it's an auditable decision with liability attached. And that's the tension I kept running into when writing about Llama Stack's architecture at where the standardized API layer matters precisely because it separates infrastructure from model behavior in ways that can be validated separately. Open source code you can read isn't the same as open source you can audit for a specific clinical decision. The 250+ research skills being readable and editable is the real story here. But editable by whom, under what governance, with what validation trail? The no-throttling point cuts both ways too. Throttling is annoying for researchers. In a regulated pipeline it's sometimes the mechanism that forces human review at volume thresholds. None of this is a knock on the project. The extensibility model is exactly right for comp bio and cheminformatics where every lab has idiosyncratic data formats. But the governance layer is where open source health and science tools either earn institutional trust or stay perpetually in the "promising demo" category.

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Noesis Yuan (in sf)3 months ago

skill suggestion: bypass-paywalls. give any paper, and use all means to retrieve text

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Ratish3 months ago

We really got open source Claude Science 5 days after Claude Science

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DrakeN 魔人3 months ago

finally!

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