It's probably time to retire the term "Lab" when referring to anything OpenAI and Anthropic do. These are businesses, some of the biggest businesses on the planet.
Anthropic has set up a wet lab in San Francisco, their bio research has advanced beyond in silico. They are now conducting physical research both in-house and with external partners. The NYT also broke the news this morning that Anth now plans to scale its compute to 5 GW by the end of the year, and 10 GW within the next 16 months. Bio is next after math, and I think we are going to see some medical announcements much sooner than people are expecting.
— Andrew Curran (@AndrewCurran_) September 18, 2026
However, sticking with the lab nomenclature for one more moment, the first thing I thought of upon seeing "wet lab" was some sort of chimera created by crossing a wet market with an institute of virology. Perhaps populated with pangolins, raccoon dogs and bats to liven the place up.
And out the door: the headline is not P vs NP.
