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Claude discovers a novel enzyme system with CRISPR-like repeats
In early results from our new life sciences research lab, Claude agents found an enzyme system whose function is still unknown.
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When AI Builds Itself: Our progress toward recursive self-improvement
Our progress toward recursive self-improvement, and its implications.
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A global workspace in language models
Interpretability research on Claude's internal thoughts.
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Reasoning models don't always say what they think
Research from Anthropic on the faithfulness of AI models' chain-of-thought reasoning.
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Early progress on accelerating drug development with Claude
Over the past several months, we’ve partnered with six organizations to accelerate curing disease. We’ve also started drug discovery efforts of our own, including programs for rare childhood forms of muscular dystrophy. In this post, we provide an update on our progress.
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Mapping the Mind of a Large Language Model
We identified how millions of concepts are represented inside Claude Sonnet, the first detailed look inside a production-grade language model.
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Emotion concepts and their function in a large language model
All modern language models sometimes act like they have emotions. What’s behind these behaviors? Our interpretability team investigates.
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Signs of introspection in large language models
Research on the ability of large language models to introspect on their own internal states.
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Designing more efficient quantum circuits with Claude
Working largely on its own, Claude designed quantum circuits that improve on the best published versions, in some cases by an order of magnitude or more.
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How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery
Labs at Stanford and MIT built Claude-powered systems that run genome-wide studies in minutes and automate gene cluster interpretation.
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Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins
We asked an internal research Claude model to design minibinders (small proteins that attach tightly to a target) against scorpion neurotoxins.
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AI for scientific discovery: How researchers use Claude
We analyzed 207,000 research sessions to learn how Claude is used in science, why some tasks get more use than others, and how AI could speed up discovery.