950 Claude agents, 21 hours: Anthropic may have found a CRISPR-like gene-editing mechanism
141_1337 · reddit · 2026-09-24
A viral Reddit post recounts Anthropic running 950 Claude agents for just 21 hours over genomic data and surfacing a candidate protein for a CRISPR-like gene-editing mechanism — coming weeks after OpenAI's 10,000-agent, 80-hour Navier-Stokes result. The pattern: throw compute at open knowledge problems.
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