Anthropic's AI Wet Lab Finds Enzyme, Redefines AI-for-Science

Anthropic has announced its AI model, Claude, autonomously identified a novel enzyme system with functional similarities to CRISPR machinery, a landmark achievement from its new internal wet lab. This move transcends the current AI-for-science paradigm, which largely focuses on analyzing existing data, by creating a closed loop of hypothesis generation and empirical validation. It directly challenges the software-centric roadmaps of competitors like Google DeepMind and NVIDIA