Lila Sciences
also referred to as: lila science
24 statements across 1 episodes · 19 bullish · 0 bearish · 2 people on the record · first statement Jul 16, 2026 by Andy Beam · said 40 times in 1 episodes since 2026 · across every show →
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Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Lila's 10-trillion-token general science model beats specialized AI
“So we have assembled this reasoning data set of 10 trillion scientific tokens reasoning traces that are experimentally verified across life sciences, chemistry, and material sciences, and we have seen that this general model often beats the domain-specific mod…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Beam: Lila's best non-platinum electrocatalysts came from AI ideas experts called stupid
“Some of the suggestions from the model initially were boring, but then transitioned from boring to what he considered to be stupid. These are non-platinum group electrocatalysts for separation of hydrogen and oxygen from water to make hydrogen, and those turns…”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: False Positives Are Terrible for Humans but Great for AI
“False positives are terrible for human scientists, right? Because you go to try something. It doesn't work for the model. It's fantastic. It reduces uncertainty a lot. For the operator, it's kind of a bummer, right? Because you thought you were going to get so…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Beam: Lila avoids pre-training from scratch, builds on open-weight models
“We have not decided to take on pre-training as well, just because the black magic that you have to do is, is insane, and we've been gifted, you know, something like a billion dollars worth of compute in the form of open-weight models. So we start with an open-…”
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026 neutral
Beam: AI safety cannot wait because capability curves are sigmoid-shaped
“Safety is not something you can procrastinate on because capability curves tend to be sigmoid shaped and it can look like everything's fine and then all of a sudden there's something that you didn't Anticipate the model being able to do.”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: Lila tests 96 MOFs in an hour using proxy measurements
“And that's something we built in the lab now where instead of measuring pressure, we're measuring another property we care about that is a readout for what actually pressure will tell us, but we can do 96 well plates for 96 metal organic frameworks in like an …”
Jul 16, 2026
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…”
Jul 16, 2026
Beam: Lila Sciences prioritizes experimental flexibility over throughput
“So actually, the experimental platform that we're building prioritizes generalizability and flexibility over raw throughput. We want the model to be able to design a new experimental protocol, run the protocol, and receive the feedback, even if that's not an e…”
Jul 16, 2026
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: Modern lab benchtop instruments match decade-old government beamlines
“The instruments we have now are as powerful as a beam line would have been 10 years ago. We're taking measurements today that 10 years ago would have requested you to ask the federal government for a Time slot at two in the morning, somewhere out there you kno…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Beam: Lila will open source part of its 1,000 scientific RL environments
“So one of the things that we've developed along the way is a test suite of something like a thousand unique scientific RL environments where you can drop in a frontier model. You can drop in your own model. We drop in our models. So almost surely we're going t…”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Lila's AI hits 80% zero-shot on gene editing, beating humans' 0%
“Certainly for expression protocols, for some gene editing work that we've done we have tested like the platform's ability to do that versus humans. Model gets like 80% of that zero shot. Humans get zero percent of that zero shot.”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Nature and scientific experiments are ultimate verifiers for RL
“But what at Lilo we believe is that actually science running the scientific method and using nature and experiments as verifier is like the ultimate version of that. And so what we're building, we'll talk about these things that we call AI science factories. T…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Future AI labs will be million-square-foot, lights-out data centers
“We do think about scaling it In the same way that you would think about scaling a data center, in that it's a multi-level building, occupies millions of square feet, and it's like a lights-out facility, as they say. It's like running 24 seven, generating data …”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: Lila AI Calls Process Simulators for Scale-Up Economics
“In the materials and chemistry, you know, our tools can call process engineering simulators. And go figure out what pipe diameters and what heat exchangers you should be using in order to scale up the process for the economics to be worth it.”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: Small-Molecule Drug Discovery Training Transferred to Metal-Organic Frameworks
“And it turns out that our models had been trained on small molecule drug discovery, and all of the chemistry that they had learned thinking about drug discovery carried over to start reasoning over this metal organic framework materials that we can use to take…”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Beam: Verified scientific reasoning traces lift models despite parameter disadvantages
“So like we have just seen incredible lift from showing the model that even if we're at like a parameter disadvantage relative to the frontier models, just showing it an experimentally verified reasoning, reasoning trace, you see just immediate lift when we do …”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Lila's in vivo CAR-T data outperformed Capstan in non-human primates
“So we have developed some monster UTRs, untranslated regions, which flank the protein coding region which dictate those expression properties. Something like Tenex, the references from Moderna and Pfizer. And over the course of six months, got to in vivo data …”
Jul 16, 2026 positive
Gomez-Bombarelli: Self-driving lab synthesizes custom quantum dots in 90 minutes
“So we have a cute demo where our self-driving lab, we ask our visitors to pick up wavelengths. What color do you want the quantum dot to be when they come into the office? And then we fire off the machine, The model reasons, even sometimes we've been throwing …”
Jul 16, 2026 bullish
Beam: Round-over-round experimentation yields more compound value than broad datasets
“The bet is that the sort of like as the model performance improves, the sample efficiency goes up, and therefore like the compound interest that you get from round over round experimentation will outweigh that, that you would get from a big noisy, but broad da…”