Anthropic · Claude · OpenAI · Fortune Technology
Anthropic makes first move into physical AI with new way for scientists, manufacturers to bring equipment to life
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Imagine a factory where all the equipment is powered by AI, where robotic arms and assembly lines can “communicate” with their own shared language.
Key facts
- Nvidia, which is set to purchase Hugging Face for $13 billion, has also long championed physical AI
- It’s built on the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a universal, open standard for connecting data sources that Anthropic debuted in 2024
- Some partners include Genentech, Carnegie Mellon university, quantum computing company QuEra, Universal Robots, Amazon Web Services, Doosan Robotics, Danaher, and Hugging Face
- Anthropic developed MHS in partnership with the HHMI Janelia Research Campus, a biomedical research center in Virginia
Summary
That’s the idea behind Anthropic new Model Hardware Standard (MHS), which the company released as a research preview on Thursday. With MHS, companies can integrate AI into their equipment in “hours or minutes,” Anthropic said. The MHS can also help connect multiple devices to one another, enabling them to communicate through a set of commands, such as “read.” Any hardware device can understand these commands and act on them. MHS is model-agnostic, meaning it works with any LLM—not Claude—including models built by other companies such as OpenAI or open-source models.