They are saying that Anthropic already has a biology lab in San Francisco, and is working on pushing automation with Claude as far as possible.
They also hope to do pre-clinical work on diseases thought «undruggable,» meaning they are too expensive or complex to cure.
— The mission of the company is to develop powerful AI in such a way that [it] benefits the world, Anthropic’s head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams tells Reuters. — By far, we see the biggest opportunity for that in the life sciences, and that is motivating everything that we’re doing.
That said, Anthropic also works with external lab partners for what seems a lot of their «normal» biology testing.
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