An Anthropic logo is displayed at Moscone Center during the Dreamforce 2026 technology summit in San Francisco. September 17, 2026. REUTERS/Carlos Barria
At the end of a week when fears of AI have gripped the public, we can exclusively reveal that Anthropic has quietly set up a laboratory to do physical biology work.
The startup has built a wet lab, or place for physical experiments, in the San Francisco Bay Area, two people familiar with the matter said.
The reason for the lab is to push its artificial-intelligence ambitions into the world of drug science. Anthropic has said it wants to unlock treatments for rare diseases, and its biology work has gone beyond "in silico" or computer evaluations.
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