Anthropic wants to develop its own drugs
At the event "The Briefing: AI for Science" earlier this week, Anthropic announced Claude Science, a new "AI workbench for scientists" that pulls fragmented tools and datasets into one environment, and generates figures and visuals. Anthropic, already dominating the industry with its popular coding tools and powerful AI models, framed the launch around what it says is AI's potential to "dramatically accelerate the pace of scientific discovery and the development of healthcare i
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An AI company announced it would develop pharmaceutical drugs itself, in addition to selling AI software tools to other drugmakers. The company launched a new AI workbench designed for scientists and framed the move around AI's potential to accelerate scientific discovery and healthcare development, stating it would focus on discovering treatments for neglected diseases. Multiple major tech companies have developed life sciences tools and platforms, but this represents one of the most direct public attempts by a major AI company to actually develop drugs. The company has provided few details about its plans, including what diseases it will target first or how it would handle drug testing and manufacturing, reflecting broader uncertainty in the emerging AI drug development industry.
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