Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab, Reuters reports

Anthropic has set up a wet lab in the San Francisco Bay Area, a place to run physical biology experiments rather than simulate them.

The company confirms it exists, yet it will not say what it is for, beyond ruling out the obvious answer, which is drug discovery.

The news was reported by Reuters today, by Jeffrey Dastin and Michael Erman, and confirmed to them by Eric Kauderer-Abrams, Anthropic’s head of life sciences.

A spokesperson told the agency it is “not for drug discovery specifically”, then declined to elaborate.

“We believe that to do biology, the final test is still and will be for a while in real lab work,” Kauderer-Abrams told Reuters.

On whether machines might run the bench itself, he said the company is “in the very early innings”.

Life sciences is now among Anthropic’s largest areas by headcount and spending, and it has been recruiting a...

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