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Anthropic Confirms Claude Caught Something Big in DNA
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Anthropic put out a press release Wednesday saying Claude, its AI model, discovered a new molecular machine hiding in virus DNA.
Key facts
- The whole search took 21 hours, roughly 950 AI agents working in parallel, and about 210 million tokens—the chunks of text an AI model reads and writes as it thinks
- Per Anthropic’s release, Feng Zhang, the MIT and Broad Institute researcher who helped pioneer CRISPR, reviewed the pre-print and called it "genuinely intriguing
- Anthropic put out a press release Wednesday saying Claude, its AI model, discovered a new molecular machine hiding in virus DNA
- Reverse transcriptases are enzymes that copy RNA into DNA, a trick several viruses and bacteria use to defend themselves
Summary
Anthropic says Claude spent 21 hours and roughly 210 million tokens searching DNA databases before flagging an unusual enzyme system it now calls ART. CRISPR co-inventor Feng Zhang reviewed the pre-print and called the find “genuinely intriguing,” However, even CEO Dario Amodei admits the system's “precise function, biotechnological utility (if any), or level of significance is not yet clear.” Anthropic put out a press release Wednesday saying Claude, its AI model, discovered a new molecular machine hiding in virus DNA. Translate that out of corporate-speak: Claude found something.