Anthropic Opens Bio "Wet Lab" in SF and Meta's Muse App

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We made it to the weekend. I hope you guys are all doing fantastic. Titting on the show, I want to talk about Anthropic, and they are quietly setting up a biology lab. They're ramping up their AI drug program. There is, as you can imagine, a lot of comments on X and everywhere else about this. We also have some news that I'm excited for, and I feel like I'm turning into a Meta stan at this point, which I've never been in my entire life, but Meta's Muse app is now on Mac. They have a Mac app, and I'm actually super stoked about that.

We also have the fact that Manus is looking at a $4 billion valuation. They're doing a $500 million raise. This is after Meta bought them, and Beijing said, just kidding, they meant basically turn the company back and unwind the acquisition. We also have the fact that the FAA is tapping Airspace Intelligence for an $875 million AI air traffic control system. Lots of comments on this right now.

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If you listen on Apple Podcasts, if you've ever watched the videos, I screen share all the news stories and product demos and tool demos that I'm talking about. If you enjoy that, let me know because it is way more work to do video, it's way more work to be doing product demos the whole time the podcast is going. If that's something that's enjoyable to you, please leave a review on the podcast. It would help me to know if I should continue doing this. Otherwise, let's get into the show today. So, Anthropic right now, they announced, and they kind of announced this a while back, but they're getting more and more into they want to do biolabs. And specifically, there's a tweet that weren't viral from Polymarket. It said, Breaking Anthropic has quietly set up a wet lab in the Bay Area as it pushes Cloud to conduct real world biology experiments. This is according to routers. There's a lot of people commenting on it, but one of the people was Trimoth Polyhapitiya from the All In Podcast, and he said, The group behind such hits as We're All Going to Die and Regulate Me Now are building a wet lab in San Francisco. I do not recommend this. This is kind of the response that I think a lot of people have been getting. And honestly, I mean, it's not a shocker why this is happening. You have Anthropic out there saying, Look, like AI is going to end humanity. And one of the reasons is they're like, you know, biological warfare. And, you know, they're like AI and drones and AI robotics. They're like, there's all these different ways that AI could end humanity. And one of them is like biological warfare. And by the way, we're setting up our own wet lab and getting it to be completely controlled by Claude. So as you can imagine, a lot of people are sort of freaked out about this and don't think this is a great idea. They basically want Claude to direct all of the laboratory robots. They want there to be very limited human intervention. And they said that they believe, so the reason why they're doing this is they believe this could accelerate research to a lot of different rare and what they're calling undruggable diseases. They think that they're focused on preclinical research rather than clinical trials is going to avoid direct competition with all of the big pharmaceutical companies that are paying them millions of dollars for their technology. So it's interesting. I've never really seen Anthropic shy away from competing head on, whether that's with lawyers or with doctors or like with a lot of different areas. But it appears they are not trying to compete with pharmaceutical companies and they will pay them millions of dollars. I would assume hundreds of millions of dollars of revenue comes from pharmaceutical companies. So they're like, look, we're going to enter the space, but not in a way that competes too harshly. So interesting right there. Okay, we had a tweet earlier today from Mark Zuckerberg where he essentially said, Muse for Mac is out today. It works across apps, files, calendar, notes and messages on your computer. You control what can access. The team is shipping fast. Download it here. This is something I was actually talking about the other day because I tried out Muse for the first time and I'm going to be honest, I have basically never used any Meta AI tools for the last two years. I mean, I've tried them whenever they drop, but something like Meta AI built into Messenger was just always so bad. Their open source models were cool and I applauded them for doing the Lama and for doing the open source models because I think that that's a really good contribution to technology and developers and everything. But as far as a product that I actually use, it was never the best so I don't really want to use it if it's not cutting edge. That I truly believe has changed with their latest model that they've released and with Muse and for those that don't know, Muse is basically Cloud Cowork or ChatGPT work. Why am I talking about it so much? Why do I care? Guys, this is free to use and I think that they might be working on some payment tiers or something, but right now, imagine getting ChatGPT work, which by the way, I've used up all of my ChatGPT work credits for the week and I'm now having to wait and five more days for it to reset. And if you're like, wow, you just used a lot. No, actually, I don't really know how it all works and I appreciate opening, giving us resets. I was using the Astra model, not on the highest tier, because if you ask one question on the highest tier of the Astra model, it will use your entire week's usage in one question that runs for two minutes. Learned that the hard way last week. But this week I had a big project and I did want, you know, a really good model and Astra is an incredible model. So I didn't have it turned up all the way, but I did have it on, you know, like high or something. Maybe it was like in the middle of their five level slider. And on that level, with a very important project that needed that smart of compute, I used up, I guess they gave me three resets. So when you have OpenAI, if you use up all of your tokens, I don't know who assigns the resets or when they assign the resets or why. Maybe it's if they have a glitch or I don't really understand how it works. But I guess I found in my settings that had three resets, meaning I used up all my tokens and I could click reset and it reset me to be full for the week. I did that three times. So I used up my first week and then I used up my three resets. So basically I used up an entire month's worth for in about a week. So one week I used an entire month's worth in like three or four days, I think. Now I didn't really conceptualize what these resets were worth until once you run out now, it asks you, hey, do you want to reset it? If you click yes, it's $80 for a one week reset now. So even though it's $200 for the whole thing, if you want to reset it for the week because you use it all up anyways, lucky for me, I was at a Claude subscription, I just go to Claude and I use it's like Opus 5 or something.