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Beam: Lila's core asset is its reasoning model, not clinical pipeline
“The model itself is the thing of value at Lila. So in that sense, we're much more of like a neolab trying to think of a new way to push forward capabilities of a core reasoning LLM based model.”
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 …”
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-…”
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…”
Beam: Lila uses a vision-language model to automate Windows 95 machines
“We actually have a vision language model controlling a Windows 95 machine. Because that's the only way to automate it.”
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…”
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…”