🔬 The Lab of the Future Should Feel Like a Data Center — Andy Beam & Rafa Gómez-Bombarelli, Lila Sciences

Latent Space · 5 hours ago

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.