Anthropic Enters Drug Discovery, Midjourney Unveils Ultrasound Scanner, and Small LM Geometry Research

연구/벤치마크 | Sat Jul 04 2026 00:00:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) | 4 sources

Anthropic announced its entry into drug discovery, Midjourney revealed a medical ultrasound scanner, researchers developed an eye transplantation device, and a new study examined embedding geometry in small language models.

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[Anthropic] unveiled Claude Science and entered in-house drug discovery ^[1]

Announced Claude Science
an AI workbench for scientists
Life sciences head Eric Kauderer-Abrams mentioned plans for in-house drug discovery
Focus on developing treatments for 'neglected' diseases
Secured multiple biotech and pharma clients

[Midjourney] released behind-the-scenes footage of ultrasound medical scanner ^[2]

A dunk-tank style scanner modified with multiple ultrasound probes
Hardware based on off-the-shelf computers and Raspberry Pi
To be launched as a body composition wellness product not requiring FDA approval
Expert verification of physics and imaging performance still lacking

[Centre for Genomic Regulation] developed ECaBox device to revive eyes from deceased donors ^[3]

Eye-in-a-Care-Box that supplies oxygen-rich perfusate through the ophthalmic artery
Confirmed viability maintained for over 24 hours in pig eye experiments
Perfused eyes recovered light response function
Successful retinal preservation validated on 12 human eyes

[Dispersion Loss Research Team (ICML 2026)] identified embedding condensation in small LMs and proposed dispersion loss ^[4]

Token embeddings converge into a narrow cone-shaped subspace through Transformer layers
Smaller models exhibit more severe condensation
while larger models show resistance
Problem not resolved even with knowledge distillation
Designed a dispersion loss training objective to mitigate this and improve generalization

Anthropic Enters Drug Discovery, Midjourney Unveils Ultrasound Scanner, and Small LM Geometry Research

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