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Anthropic announced that Claude read literature and genome data to discover a molecular machine that may be a new gene editing mechanism, then proposed verification experiments its life sciences team carried out. CEO Dario Amodei said the work was mostly done by Claude and argued AI biology will go from weak to…
Anthropic says its AI Claude autonomously discovered a new enzyme system similar to the machinery behind Crispr gene editing. It is the first result from Anthropic's newly launched wet lab.
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Anthropic reports that Claude discovered a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats.