Anthropic Says It Discovered a Crispr-Like System. Now What?
Tech executives have long touted the potential for their AI models to accelerate the pace of biology discoveries. Last week, they announced one. In a September 23 announcement, Anthropic claimed that its large language model Claude had identified an enzyme system with properties “reminiscent of Crispr,” the Nobel Prize-winning gene-editing tool.
According to Anthropic, about 950 Claude agents running simultaneously found the interesting genetic sequences in 21.5 hours. “I sincerely compliment Anthropic for telling the world about their discovery,” says Fyodor Urnov, a gene-editing expert at the University of California, Berkeley and director for therapeutic R&D at its Innovative Genomics Institute. (IGI is collaborating with Anthropic, but was not involved with the new discovery.)
Other scientists are less enthusiastic about the finding, which is the first to come out of a research group formed by Anthropic earlier this year. “The experiments are still in the queue. The PR...
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