Anthropic's Secretive AI-Powered Wet Lab Breaks Cover and Makes First Discovery
AI giant Anthropic has made several forays into the life sciences over the last year, including through its Claude Science bioinformatics platform. Now, the company has announced that it is moving into wet lab science with the launch of a human-staffed lab in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of these warnings have been explicitly apocalyptic.Enter Anthropic’s latest life science venture, which is a demonstration of AI being used in “a way that benefits the world,” Anthropic’s head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams told Reuters.
- ▪AI giant Anthropic has made several forays into the life sciences over the last year, including through its Claude Science bioinformatics platform.
- ▪Now, the company has announced that it is moving into wet lab science with the launch of a human-staffed lab in the San Francisco Bay Area.
- ▪Some of these warnings have been explicitly apocalyptic.Enter Anthropic’s latest life science venture, which is a demonstration of AI being used in “a way that benefits the world,” Anthropic’s head of life sciences Eric Kauderer-Abrams told
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AI giant Anthropic has made several forays into the life sciences over the last year, including through its Claude Science bioinformatics platform. Now, the company has announced that it is moving into wet lab science with the launch of a human-staffed lab in the San Francisco Bay Area. The company said in a release that it had been quietly operating the lab since the spring of this year and that the project has already made a discovery: “a novel enzyme system with properties reminiscent of CRISPR.”A “Typical” Molecular Biology Lab Powered by AIIn recent weeks, warnings from leaders both inside and out of the tech industry have called for better regulation around AI.
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