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Update

What changed

Anthropic has now confirmed that its biology work includes a wet lab in the Bay Area, where it uses AI models to run physical experiments. The company says the lab focuses mainly on fundamental biology, not drug discovery, and operates partly with external partners. Anthropic’s life-sciences head, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, told Reuters that real lab work remains the final test for biology research for now. The update gives the original story a firmer outline: this is not just an AI lab talking about biology, but a company putting models alongside benches, pipettes and the stubbornness of the physical world. Anthropic also bought stealth AI-biotech company Coefficient Bio in April. The key unanswered question is what the lab is actually working on, and how its experimental work connects to the safeguards Anthropic has been urging the rest of the industry to adopt.

Sources and evidence

• Anthropic, as reported by TechCrunch: Anthropic confirmed to TechCrunch that it operates a wet biology lab in the Bay Area and uses its AI models to run physical experiments.

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