Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program: Report
The company is using Claude Science and a $400 million biotech acquisition to expand preclinical research while limiting work on clinical trials, Reuters said.
- On Friday, September 18, 2026, Anthropic reported that its Claude model now leads 26% of internal research and development, collaborating with human staff on about 90% of tasks.
- Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei recently called for slowing AI development to address safety concerns, arguing for "better visibility into the pace of AI development" to help the public decide how to use the technology.
- "Models accelerating their own development could make it more challenging for humans to understand or control these systems," Anthropic warned, while researcher Jacob Coxon claimed industry leaders are "racing straight toward self-improving superintelligence."
- Tech leaders including OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and SpaceX CEO Elon Musk have backed calls for regulatory restraint with third-party "embedded evaluators" from METR, though legislative efforts to mandate emergency shutoffs have stalled.
- President Donald Trump dismissed calls for guardrails, arguing that AI development requires only a "STRONG AND SMART PRESIDENT" and claiming efforts to curb domestic AI advancement constitute "a SICK conspiracy" benefiting China.
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Anthropic's New Biology Lab Signals a Bigger Ambition Than Building AI
The Anthropic biology lab is a wet lab where the company is exploring how Claude, human scientists and lab automation could share one research workflow. Anthropic reports about 4x faster biomolecular models, but the results are computational, and the company says the lab is not specifically for drug discovery.
Anthropic no longer wants to limit itself to AI models and chatbots. The company has entered the world of medical research and has established a biology lab. This lab will use AI to advance research in medicine and biology. The company is also working to accelerate scientific experiments using AI and robots.
(San Francisco = Yonhap News) Correspondent Kwon Young-jeon = It has been revealed that artificial intelligence (AI) startup Antropic has established a biology laboratory in the San Francisco Bay Area...
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