Anthropic's AI agents scanned 1.9 billion proteins and found three candidate new enzymes
rvp · x · 2026-09-27
Anthropic used AI agents to search through 1.9 billion proteins and identified three possible new enzymes. The findings still need validation, but as the poster notes, if AI can help science discover something genuinely new, this is only the beginning — a notable case of agents applied to large-scale scientific discovery rather than coding.
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