Verifiable Environments for AI in Biology — Kenny Workman, LatchBio
LatchBio operates as a vertical AI lab building benchmarks and agents for biology's data explosion
“We are basically a vertical AI lab for benchmark and agent engineering.”
LatchBio CTO Kenny Workman frames the case for AI agents in biology around the explosive data volumes generated by modern experimental techniques—single cell (2-6 TB/run), spatial biology (7 TB/run), and proteomics—arguing these exceed what individual scientists can handle. LatchBio positions itself as a 'vertical AI lab' focused on benchmark and agent engineering specifically for this domain. The talk is building toward verifiable environments as the scaffolding needed to evaluate and trust AI agents running biological analysis pipelines, a nascent but important infrastructure problem.