K-Dense x NVIDIA collaboration on Nemotron 3 Nano Omni, rowan-autosearch with Rowan Scientific, a new ARPA-H policy use case, the AI Co-Scientist essay, May office hours, Pantheon on the web, and sunsetting our Slack community.
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// May 1, 2026

>NVIDIA + K-Dense: Evaluating Nemotron 3 Nano Omni

This week we announced our collaboration with NVIDIA to evaluate their Nemotron 3 Nano Omni Model, an open-source multimodal model, for scientific applications.

Read our blog post
Read the NVIDIA announcement

>Rowan + K-Dense: Introducing rowan-autosearch

In collaboration with Rowan Scientific, we’re releasing rowan-autosearch, an open-source package for agent-driven molecular property optimization. You define a chemistry objective and a starting molecule; an AI coding agent plays the role of a medicinal chemist – proposing analogs, scoring them with Rowan’s quantum and ML workflows, checking drug-likeness with RDKit, and iterating until a winning candidate emerges. Every candidate, payload, constraint check, and design rationale is captured as append-only JSON and rendered into an auditable HTML report.

rowan-autosearch on GitHub →

>New Use Case: 42-Page ARPA-H Policy Report in One Session

We asked K-Dense Web to produce a publishable policy analysis of ARPA-H’s first four years. The result: a peer-reviewed 42-page report with 14 publication-grade figures, 71 verified citations, a comparative ARIA/SPRIN-D framework, and 7 evidence-grounded recommendations – all in one autonomous session.

Read the case study →

>New Blog: AI Co-Scientist, Not AI Scientist

Why we put the hyphen in front of every product we build. The case – from AlphaFold to Google DeepMind to Polanyi’s tacit knowledge – for keeping the human scientist front and center.

Read the essay →

>May Office Hours

Join us for our next office hours on May 20. This is a drop-in session where members of our team will be available to answer questions about K-Dense Web, Scientific Agent Skills, K-Dense BYOK, and more.

RSVP on Luma →

>Just for Fun: Mimeographs

Last week we released Mimeo, a tool that distills opinions from the world’s greatest minds into agentic skills you can use in your local developer environment, along with Mimeographs, a ready-to-use collection of 80+ experts already generated with it.

mimeo on GitHub – the tool to generate a new expert
mimeographs on GitHub – the catalog of 80+ ready-to-install experts
Pantheon – try it on the web for a limited time

>Sunsetting K-Dense Slack Community

We’ll be decommissioning the K-Dense Slack community effective today, May 1. If you want to stay connected with our latest developments, connect with us on social media.

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Until next week,

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