Licklider launches SciGround to verify AI-assisted research

Tokyo startup Licklider has launched SciGround, a tool that checks the statistics behind AI-assisted research outside the language model, the company announced. Researchers keep using their own AI assistant, which calls SciGround through the Model Context Protocol; the MCP connector is in public beta.

SciGround runs checks in established software such as SciPy, R and the Z3 solver, requires the test design to be fixed before any result is shown, and refuses rather than approximates when data do not fit. Each result comes with a record of assumptions, inputs and software versions so others can repeat it. At launch it supports common tests including t-tests, ANOVA and RNA-seq differential expression.