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Geoffrey von Maltzahn and the Lab That Learns
As a boy, he rigged strings and pulleys to switch on the lights. Today, the Lila Sciences co-founder wants laboratories to ask their own questions, run the experiments, and learn what comes next.
Ayush Garg Started With One Annoying Download. Now He’s Rewriting the Research Workflow.
Before AnswerThis became a research platform used around the world, it was a teenager’s refusal to keep downloading papers one by one. Ayush Garg has spent years turning that small irritation into a larger argument: scientific work should move at the speed of the questions, not the software.
Samuel Rodriques
Samuel Rodriques is a physicist-turned-bioengineer and co-founder and CEO of Edison Scientific, the AI-driven scientific discovery company behind Kosmos - an AI scientist that reportedly condenses six months of PhD-level research into a single day. A MIT PhD and Hertz Fellow who invented implosion fabrication and pioneered spatial transcriptomics, Rodriques left the Francis Crick Institute to co-found FutureHouse (funded by Eric Schmidt) in 2023, then spun it into for-profit Edison Scientific, which raised a $70M seed round at a $250M valuation in December 2025. Named to Time 100 AI in 2025, he is on a mission to cure all diseases by mid-century through AI-accelerated science.