Anthropic has quietly built a biology lab in the Bay Area as it expands into physical experiments, Reuters reports. Its life sciences chief confirmed the wet lab. The company reportedly wants Claude to direct laboratory robots. Eric Kauderer-Abrams: "We're in the very early innings of using AI to automate the execution of lab work" Interestingly enough: "A spokesperson later clarified that Anthropic's lab is not for drug discovery specifically, declining to elaborate." This could mean that they are researching pharmaceuticals and, in addition, the fundamental principles of biology, such as aging itself. In any case, it is becoming increasingly clear, and Dario has repeatedly emphasized this, that they see biology as one of the key future fields for AI.