Anthropic quietly builds Bay Area wet lab to let Claude direct robots in drug discovery
birchlse · x · 2026-09-19
Anthropic has quietly established a Bay Area wet lab, taking its life-sciences ambitions beyond simulation into physical biological experiments. The company wants Claude to direct lab robots with limited human intervention, aiming to accelerate research into rare and traditionally 'undruggable' diseases.
Key points:
- Focus is preclinical research only, avoiding direct competition with pharmaceutical companies on clinical trials
- A major AI-for-Science move: frontier models driving real-world experiments
- The tweet sarcastically contrasts Dario's earlier '10% extinction risk, we must PACE development' stance with the company now building a bio lab
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