Yes. According to Reuters reporting on September 18, 2026, Anthropic has quietly built a wet lab for physical biology experiments in the San Francisco Bay Area as it expands AI work into drug science, going beyond purely computer-based (“in silico”) evaluations.
Anthropic’s head of life sciences, Eric Kauderer-Abrams, confirmed the lab in a Reuters interview, saying real lab work remains essential for biology and that some experiments run in Anthropic’s own facilities while others involve external partners. A company spokesperson later clarified that the lab is not specifically for drug discovery.
Source: Reuters — Anthropic quietly sets up biology lab as it ramps AI drug program (Sept. 18, 2026).