MarkTechPost · Jul 2026
Independent coverage of the OpenScience launch and its model-agnostic, open-source positioning versus Anthropic's Claude Science.
Company research
Public company, workplace, funding, and market signals
Updated Jul 29, 2026
Overview
Synthetic Sciences is a small San Francisco-based AI research lab building foundation models and AI co-scientists for scientific discovery; its managed product is Atlas, and it also maintains OpenScience, an open-source workbench for scientific research.
Primary product
Atlas
Founded
2025
Headquarters
San Francisco, California, United States
Team size
1-10
Industry
Technology, Information and Internet
Sub-industry
AI infrastructure / AI research
Offices
San Francisco, California, United States
Business model
subscription SaaS
usage-based credits
enterprise / on-prem deployments
Funding
Stage
pre-seed
Total raised
$1.4M
Latest round
Pre-seed · Dec 2025
Latest amount
$1.4M
Dec 2025
People & investors
Work & culture
Public-facing materials describe a small, talent-dense, research-heavy team of polymathic AI researchers focused on self-motivated work and scientific infrastructure.
Product & market
Pricing
Freemium / credits-based subscription with paid Plus and Pro tiers plus custom enterprise/on-prem plans.
Differentiators
- —End-to-end research loop: literature review, hypothesis generation, experiment design, code execution, and paper drafting
- —Atlas research graph that preserves hypotheses, experiments, results, and provenance
- —OpenScience is model-agnostic and can run with any frontier or open-weight model
- —Runs on user infrastructure with BYOK and local model support
- —Persistent sandboxes and deterministic resume / checkpointing
- —Research-process data flywheel for improving future models
Technology
OpenScience
Atlas
LLM orchestration
LangGraph or custom orchestration
E2B
Daytona
Modal
RunPod
Supabase
Postgres
pgvector
Upstash Redis
Stripe
Bun
Semantic Scholar API
UniProt
PDB
ChEMBL
arXiv
Competitors
Anthropic Claude Science
Microsoft
Google
Aemon
10x Science
Research Rabbit
Zotero
Mendeley
EndNote
Citavi
Scale & contact
Latest news
LinkedIn · Jul 2026
Company post announcing OpenScience, an open-source AI workbench with model choice, local infrastructure support, and 250+ research skills.
StartupHub.ai · May 2026
Analysis of Synthetic Sciences' product, pricing, infra stack, differentiation, and target market.
Synthetic Sciences · Dec 2025
Official company announcement that Synthetic Sciences raised a $1.4M pre-seed round and joined Y Combinator's Winter 2026 batch.
Y Combinator
YC company profile describing the company, its founders, location, batch, and product thesis around AI co-scientists for end-to-end scientific research.
Jobs and careers at Synthetic Sciences
2 jobs at Synthetic Sciences
Staff/Principal Software Engineer (US Remote)
Remote
Engineering - US Remote
United States
4mo ago
Remote
Full-time
Staff/Principal Software Engineer
On-site
Core team
San Francisco
6mo ago
On-site
Full-time