Co-founder @LilaSciences - building scientific superintelligence
Boston, MA
Joined September 2011
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Ben Kompa retweeted
We teamed up with @anyscalecompute to push GLM-5.3-Flash training to 1M tokens in SkyRL—64× longer context, plus 2.1× faster steps at 256K.
Turns out the implementation of sparse attention wasn't so sparse!
We were super happy to work with anyscale to contribute these fixes to open source!
Link 👇
Ben Kompa retweeted
We may have just experienced the most consequential period in the history of math.
When we see the same kind of rapid progress in science, the impact will be even greater and the potential for benefit even more immense.
@GVMaltzahn articulated this potential incredibly well at a recent summit at the White House
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Ben Kompa retweeted
We're having a great time #COLM! Come join us at @Techweek_ tomorrow to keep the conversations going. partiful.com/e/jxtyCAqL4xcVT…
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Excited and honored to be speaking at the ARC Prize Research Summit on October 23rd! With the next generation of ARC Prize focusing on open-ended discovery, this event is a great opportunity to discuss what it really means to succeed in creating truly open-ended AI.
Announcing ARC Prize Research Summit 2026 Keynote Speaker
Kenneth Stanley
@kenneth0stanley is a pioneer in neuroevolution and open-ended AI, co-creator of NEAT and novelty search, and co-author of “Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned.”
Ben Kompa retweeted
If you’re at CoLM and are interested in one of the largest post-training efforts in science, come talk to us!
@LilaSciences is hiring 🚀 If you're attending @COLM_conf, chat with us at our booth in the industry expo
I'll personally be at the booth from 2-4pm on tuesday, come by to say hi👋
Ben Kompa retweeted
Really looking forward to this panel with @michellearning, @glebkuz, and @DBBurkhardt!
Science is an infinite token generator and I’m excited to discuss what we can do to accelerate progress.
How is AI accelerating scientific progress?
On October 7, I'm moderating a conversation with three founders and leaders working on that question:
• Michelle Lee, CEO of @medra_ai
• Andy Beam, CTO of @LilaSciences
• Gleb Kuznetsov, CEO of @ManifoldBio
@AnthropicAI and @nvidia are bringing together founders, researchers, and builders at Claude Founder House during #SFTechWeek to talk about AI for science and drug discovery.
We’ll start with a short panel, then continue the conversation over drinks. If you’re building in this space, we’d love to see you there.
October 7 · 5–7:30pm PDT · San Francisco
Request to join: luma.com/claude-ai-for-scien…
Ben Kompa retweeted
@LilaSciences is hiring 🚀 If you're attending @COLM_conf, chat with us at our booth in the industry expo
I'll personally be at the booth from 2-4pm on tuesday, come by to say hi👋
Ben Kompa retweeted
We’re working to solve some of the world’s most important problems including those that we haven’t even thought of yet! Scaling for science with physical labs is such an unlock toward general intelligence, it’s a super fun environment!
Ben Kompa retweeted
Proud to be at the company where scientific advances that can improve our lives are being vastly accelerated.
Green hydrogen currently runs on iridium — one of Earth's rarest metals, a few tonnes mined per year. Our AI-directed lab screened 2,942 catalysts in 3 months and surfaced a palladium-based lead the field had written off, now past 1,000 hours of testing in acid. lila.ai/news/how-an-ai-run-l…
Ben Kompa retweeted
So proud of our new open-endedness team @LilaSciences! We'll be sharing work with the world soon. In the meantime, you can learn more about us in this team profile Lila just posted. Our bet is that open-
endedness is mission-critical to real scientific discovery. More👇
A batch of "junk" diamond crystals turned out to be exactly what the researchers needed. That instinct -- don't throw out the weird result -- is the philosophy behind Lila's Open-Endedness team led by @kenneth0stanley lila.ai/news/whats-a-science…
Ben Kompa retweeted
We had a chance to test drive a preview version of Nemtron 3.5 Lightning at Lila. We tested it in some really challenging RL environments in materials science and it was super easy to train and mastered the task much faster than previous models.
Nice job by the Nemotron team!
Ben Kompa retweeted
I'll be at Ray Summit this year - if you're going or will be in the Bay Area and want to connect, shoot me a message!
We're headed to Ray Summit in SF (Aug 24–26). 🚀 Catch our CTO @AndrewLBeam's keynote + swing by our booth to meet the LILA team and learn more about what we're building.
Details ⤵️
anyscale.com/ray-summit/2026
Ben Kompa retweeted
Rafa and I recently went on @latentspacepod to discuss what we’ve been building @LilaSciences. We covered a lot of ground but some of my personal highlights are:
- What the bitter lesson means for science
- How to build the infinite token generator
- Why we should think about labs in the same way we think about data centers
- Why in vivo CAR-Ts are amazing
It was a great discussion, link below 👇
Ben Kompa retweeted
The internet was AI's fossil fuel and “we've fracked it.”
So, what's the next internet-scale dataset? Science.
Our CTO @AndrewLBeam & CSO of Physical Sciences Rafa Gomez Bombarelli on the new @LatentSpacePod with hosts @honicky and Brandon Anderson :
latent.space/p/the-lab-of-th…
Ben Kompa retweeted
I'm excited to share that I've joined @LilaSciences to work on LLM reasoning for protein design and autonomous wet lab discovery! I really think this is one of the most exciting directions in AI for science, and am thrilled to be working with such a great team.
Ben Kompa retweeted
Agents just discovered catalysts that human experts said shouldn't exist - until they actually worked.
This is what scientific superintelligence looks like. Accelerated science happening now.
Great conversation @brainstormtech with @NVIDIAHealth's @kpowgerade about how soon we’ll see AI drive drug discovery, new energy solutions, and critical materials.
fortune.com/videos/watch/A-M…
Ben Kompa retweeted
Spent an amazing morning at Lila sciences with Geoff and team, watching their scientific Superintelligence in action! @LilaSciences
