{"id":7531,"date":"2026-09-23T18:09:49","date_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7531"},"modified":"2026-09-23T18:09:49","modified_gmt":"2026-09-23T18:09:49","slug":"anthropic-biolab-claude-crispr","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/silvybrand.com\/?p=7531","title":{"rendered":"Anthropic\u2019s biolab made a discovery it\u2019s comparing to Crispr"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Anthropic says its AI Claude has \u201cautonomously discovered\u201d a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It\u2019s the first result from Anthropic\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/997809\/anthropic-launched-a-biolab\">newly-launched wet lab<\/a> and an early test of Claude\u2019s usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The company says Claude found the enzyme system after searching through a massive database of DNA sequences, adding that its scientists\u2019 involvement was limited to the initial prompt and lab work.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Over 21 hours, Anthropic said nearly 950 Claude agents worked through 210 million tokens before one spotted an unusual repeating pattern in the dataset and flagged for human review. Further analysis and lab testing revealed \u201ca previously uncharacterized enzyme system found in bacteriophages,\u201d a type of virus that infects bacteria.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Anthropic said it is still working to understand what the enzyme system does, but said it felt it was \u201cimportant to share such findings early, both to demonstrate Claude\u2019s capabilities and to give the broader community insight into what we\u2019re working on.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">Despite Anthropic\u2019s comparisons to Crispr, it remains unclear whether the discovery will have any practical applications, let alone be as transformative as the gene-editing technology. The admittedly premature announcement comes as Anthropic seeks to attract more scientists to its lab and expand into areas like <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/961311\/anthropic-claude-science-ai-drug-development\">drug discovery. <\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1044qizi _18mzr4b1 _18mzr4b0 _19wv7tc1\">The push comes as AI companies increasingly turn to scientific research to prove the value of their more capable models. OpenAI, meanwhile, has been barreling through increasingly advanced mathematical problems with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/994255\/openai-millennium-prize-problem-tristan-buckmaster-competition\">little regard<\/a> for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/977273\/the-ai-takeover-of-mathematics-has-begun\">academic norms<\/a> and traditions of the field.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/ai-artificial-intelligence\/999470\/anthropic-biolab-claude-crispr\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Anthropic says its AI Claude has \u201cautonomously discovered\u201d a new enzyme system similar to machinery behind the powerful gene-editing tool Crispr. It\u2019s the first result from Anthropic\u2019s newly-launched wet lab and an early test of Claude\u2019s usefulness for science as the company prepares to go public. 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