Claude's Breakthroughs in String Theory and Genomics
新智元 · wechat · 2026-07-14
This report highlights two cases:
- Yuji Tachikawa, a mathematical physicist at the University of Tokyo, fed string theory notes that had stalled him for half a year to Claude Fable5. The AI provided a key insight to advance his problem and even invoked SymPy to write code verifying the predictions.
- Euan Ashley, a Stanford geneticist and cardiologist, had Claude interpret his own genome according to clinical standards. Taking about 30 minutes, it identified Alzheimer's risk alleles and several drug metabolism variants. The process consumed roughly 400,000 tokens, with Claude estimating the cost at around $5.
The article emphasizes that AI is evolving from a "tool" into a "colleague" or even a "scientific collaborator," demonstrating surprising intuition and reasoning skills in highly specialized fields like theoretical physics and genomics.
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