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🧬We think biology needs its own world engine.🌏 Introducing LabWorld Factory. Prompt a lab. Generate a world. ⚡ From natural language, to scalable simulated biology labs, for training, benchmarking, and stress-testing AI agents. Not one scene. A growing distribution of labs.

AI4Science Catalyst

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AI4Science Catalyst5 months ago

🏭 Why LabWorld Factory matters: Real labs are hard to build, vary, and scale. We’re starting with 100+ lab assets, then generating diverse layouts, tools, reagents, and views so agents can train and generalize before touching real hardware. 🤖 Grateful to everyone building this with us: @Charles_Y_Wu @EscheFlex @wenbolu @JinglinJian @LingYang_PU Under the mentorship of @lecong @MengdiWang10 @auto_bio_ai @AI4S_Catalyst @Stanford @Princeton Explore 👉

Rohan Paul5 months ago

AI is coming at every layer of the scientific discovery process. Congrats on the launch.

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