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Lila Sciences
Lila Sciences is a Cambridge, Massachusetts company building what it calls scientific superintelligence: an 'AI Science Factory' that fuses generative AI with fully autonomous, robotic laboratories. Its platform generates hypotheses, designs and runs physical experiments, reads the results, and decides what to test next - closing the loop of the scientific method without a human pipetting at every step. Spun out of Flagship Pioneering's labs in 2023 and unveiled from stealth in March 2025, Lila has raised roughly $550 million and reached a valuation around $1.3 billion, with autonomous-science units aimed at life, chemical, and materials science.
Pattern Computer
Pattern Computer is a Washington-based AI company that builds a 'Pattern Discovery Engine' - a system designed to surface novel, higher-order patterns in complex, high-dimensional data that conventional tools and even exascale computers miss. Founded by technology forecaster Mark Anderson and a team that includes an Autodesk co-founder, the company focuses first on medical research and diagnostics, where its technology has improved cancer-screening accuracy and powered a reagent-free, near real-time COVID-19 test.