Anthropic's first wet lab finding: ~950 agents spot repeating DNA pattern in 21 hours
birchlse · x · 2026-09-24
Anthropic's first wet lab discovery: roughly 950 agents searched experimental data for 21 hours using 210 million tokens, and one of them spotted a repeating pattern of DNA sequences occurring next to the gene for an unusual reverse transcriptase. The finding is being widely shared as a landmark case of agent-driven scientific research.
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