Anthropic buys biotech startup Coefficient Bio in $400M deal: reports

Anthropic has purchased the stealth biotech AI startup Coefficient Bio successful a $400 cardinal banal deal, according to The Information and Eric Newcomer. Sources adjacent to the woody confirmed to TechCrunch that it closed, though declined to remark connected the amount.

The woody comes arsenic Anthropic continues its propulsion into healthcare and beingness sciences, pursuing its October announcement of Claude for Life Sciences, a instrumentality that aims to assistance technological researchers marque discoveries.

Coefficient Bio’s founders, Samuel Stanton and Nathan C. Frey, launched the startup 8 months ago, having some worked successful computational cause find astatine Genentech’s Prescient Design. Coefficient Bio was utilizing AI to assistance marque cause find and different forms of biologic probe much efficient.

The team, consisting of astir 10 people, is expected to articulation Anthropic’s wellness and beingness subject team.