Today, Anthropic and BigHat Biosciences announced a historic collaboration: a single Anthropic researcher, armed with Claude, operated BigHat’s automated lab to optimize two antibodies. This marks one of the first instances of a frontier AI lab and next-gen bio lab teaming up, and a potential watershed for drug discovery.
Today, Orchestra announced they will join OpenAI to build their life sciences applications.
Most AI thus far has primarily been deployed with an oddly isolationist architecture: one employee, one terminal, and more often than not, one model. Intelligence is consumed individually, augmenting one person at a time. But organizations have never utilized human intelligence this way. They combine people with different abilities, give them shared context, divide work among them, and coordinate the result. The company, not the individual employee, is the unit that produces.
