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Anthropic’s biolab made a discovery it’s comparing to Crispr

It took nearly 1,000 Claude agents 21 hours and 210 million tokens to uncover the ‘novel enzyme system. ’

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Anthropic announced that its AI system Claude autonomously identified a novel enzyme system that resembles the molecular machinery used by the gene‑editing technology CRISPR. The discovery emerged from the company’s newly opened wet‑lab facility, marking the first scientific output produced by that lab. Anthropic presented the result as an early test of Claude’s potential value for scientific research while the firm readies its upcoming public offering.

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