I built one of the connected tools included in this launch (the Biomni HPC [1]), and I have spent …
I built one of the connected tools included in this launch (the Biomni HPC [1]), and I have spent an inordinate amount of my life working on this problem. (I also worked at Anthropic, but not on this product.) As other comments have pointed out, this is for data science – but it's capable of more than making plots and writing papers [2]. It has integrations with many databases and computational tools, including a researcher's institutional cluster. That alone is valuable. I founded a startup after struggling with this problem at a bio startup; integrating these tools and databases is hard and time consuming. If the only outcome of this product is that great APIs are built for LLMs, it will be a massive positive impact. Many databases used in computational genomics are still only accessible through FTP! LLMs are particularly good at navigating these tools and databases. It's often very specialized, but straightforward, work that benefits from in-context skills. …
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