Anthropic says it's bio lab has found something big
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- Anthropic's wet biology lab in the Bay Area used AI models for physical experiments and discovered a new enzyme system with CRISPR-like properties for DNA operations (cutting, copying, pasting).
- The discovery, found mainly by Claude AI in 21 hours using 950 agents and 210 million tokens, is considered surprising for its speed and novelty, though based on prior work by Stanford.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei emphasized the discovery's potential benefits (curing diseases in 5-10 years) despite risks of AI-driven bioterrorism, but noted physical experiments are still done by humans, not Claude.