Last week, Anthropic confirmed that it was operating a wet biology lab in the Bay Area where it uses its AI models to run physical experiments. This week, the AI giant announced that this lab has already made what it believes is a big discovery: a new enzyme “system” that has certain “properties reminiscent of…
We live in an age of big data—and that’s a boon for biologists. Neuroscientists listen in on the chatter of thousands of neurons, recording the individual activity of each one. Geneticists sequence entire genomes in a matter of hours. Rich information about animal behavior is captured in a simple video, tracked across thousands of frames.
