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Andy Beam

CTO, Lila Sciences. On 1 show, 1 appearance. The Shows tab opens the full record on each.

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Andy Beam is the Chief Technology Officer at Lila Sciences, where he focuses on building scientific superintelligence using wet labs as verifiers for reinforcement learning. He also serves as an Associate Professor of Epidemiology at Harvard and previously co-founded Generate:Biomedicines and NEJM AI.

What they said28 Shows1

Everything Andy Beam said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.

LATENT SPACE Assertion Supported

Beam: Reinforcement learning achieves only 5% to 6% GPU FLOP utilization

“And for reinforcement learning, it's always somewhere, like, around five to, like, six percent. So, said differently, that means that we're getting, like, five percent of the actual GPU computing power that we're paying for.”

Andy Beam Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:38:42 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

LATENT SPACE Disclosure

Beam: Lila uses magnetically levitating planar motors to connect lab instruments

“We have a physical transport layer that connects almost every instrument that we have bought at Lila to each other. These are currently planar motor systems where there's an I-A-Six well plate, That magnetically levitates over a track. You have sort of millime…”

Andy Beam Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 10:40 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

LATENT SPACE Disclosure

Lila Sciences structures wet lab instruments as model tool calls in English

“At Lila, the fun thing is that the lab instruments are also tool calls or a series of tool calls for a workflow or but it's all human legible. It's all in English.”

Andy Beam Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 27:12 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

LATENT SPACE Disclosure

Beam: Lila builds custom firmware and drivers for lab instruments

“Because we have written our own custom drivers, our own custom firmware to get sort of low level granular control over a lot of these instruments and make them talk to each other.”

Andy Beam Jul 16, 2026 ▶ 1:04:30 🔬 RL with Verifiable Rewards, but the Verifier is a Lab — Lila Sciences

One line per show, most statements first. The link opens Andy's full record on that show: the calibration, argument clarity, speaking style and every statement made there.

Show	Role there	Eps	Statements	Record
LATENT SPACELEDGER	CTO, Lila Sciences	1	28	100% 1/1	full record on Latent Space →