Anthropic quietly builds Bay Area wet lab to let Claude direct biology experiments
mkheck · x · 2026-09-18
Per DeItaone, Anthropic has quietly established a wet lab in the Bay Area, extending its life-sciences work beyond simulations.
- Claude will direct lab robots with limited human oversight, targeting rare and "undruggable" diseases
- Focus is preclinical research only, avoiding competition with pharma companies
- Chamath and others flagged the irony of AI-safety-minded Anthropic running its own bio lab
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