Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
Emily MullinAnna RogersScienceSep 29, 2026 2:03 PMAnthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyTech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries.
- ▪Emily MullinAnna RogersScienceSep 29, 2026 2:03 PMAnthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System.
- ▪Now What?“The experiments are still in the queue.
- ▪The PR is already live,” says one expert.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyTech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelera
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Emily MullinAnna RogersScienceSep 29, 2026 2:03 PMAnthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?“The experiments are still in the queue. The PR is already live,” says one expert.Photo-Illustration: Wired Staff; Getty ImagesCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyCommentLoaderSave StorySave this storyTech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a September 23 announcement, Anthropic claimed that its large language model Claude had identified an enzyme system with properties “reminiscent of Crispr,” the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool.According to Anthropic, about 950 Claude agents running simultaneously found the interesting genetic sequences in 21.5 hours.
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