🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences
Latent Space
Lila Sciences is building an automated laboratory with AI-guided robotics and equipment designed to generate scientific data continuously, creating over 10 trillion experimentally validated scientific reasoning tokens. The company operates a wet lab with integrated instruments connected like a data center, achieving results such as a 2,500x speedup in gas sorption measurement and generating candidate electrocatalysts that outperformed expert-designed alternatives. This approach aims to develop a general scientific reasoner capable of solving problems across biology, chemistry, materials science, and drug discovery by treating the lab as an infinite data generation mechanism.
Why it matters
Lila is betting that science, not the internet, is the last untapped source of training data. We went to find out what that actually looks like in a room full of robots.
