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Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr
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In Short: Anthropic says its AI Claude has discovered an enzyme system similar to the machinery behind Crispr.
Anthropic announced that its artificial intelligence, Claude, has 'autonomously discovered' an enzyme system similar to the machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr, according to The Verge.
This discovery is the first result from Anthropic’s newly-launched wet lab, which is an early test of Claude’s potential usefulness for scientific research.
The company is preparing to go public and is seeking to attract more scientists to its lab, with ambitions to expand into areas such as drug discovery.
The announcement is described as premature, reflecting Anthropic's efforts to showcase Claude's capabilities and its potential impact on scientific research.
What this adds
The Verge reports that this is the first result from Anthropic’s wet lab, highlighting the early stages of AI's potential in scientific discovery.
What's still developing
- Over 21 hours, Anthropic said nearly 950 Claude agents worked through 210 million tokens before one spotted an unusual repeating pattern in the dataset and flagged for human review.