Verifiable Environments for AI in Biology — Kenny Workman, LatchBio

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A single spatial biology run can yield two to six terabytes of data, far more than a scientist can eyeball, and Kenny Workman argues that this is the raw material for teaching AI to actually do science. LatchBio, five years deep in pharma, treats experimental biology as a verifiable substrate: lay a chunk of a tumor over a sequencing surface and you get a giant matrix of numbers whose analysis has a right answer, which is exactly what you need to benchmark and improve a model. They adapted codin