Anthropic's wet lab: ~950 Claude agents find new enzyme after 21 hours
rohanpaul_ai · x · 2026-09-24
Per The Verge, Anthropic's new wet lab has made its first discovery:
- Nearly 950 Claude agents worked for 21 hours, consuming 210 million tokens
- One agent noticed an unusual repeating DNA pattern
- Subsequent analysis and wet-lab testing identified what Anthropic calls "a previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in bacteriophages"
A landmark case of agent swarms driving AI-for-science discovery through a full compute-to-lab validation loop.
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