NVIDIA Just Gave Claude Scientists a GPU wrench — and the pharma industry is already lining up
NVIDIA didn't so much announce a new product today as quietly hand Claude Science a toolbox full of GPU-accelerated models and call it a day. The BioNeMo Agent Toolkit lets Anthropic's Claude Science workbench treat things like protein folding, genomic sequencing, and inhibitor design as callable skills — the kind of thing where a scientist types "find inhibitors for this cancer antigen" in plain English and watches Claude pick the right models, run the analysis, and hand back results without ever configuring an endpoint. What's interesting is the architecture behind it. Each "skill" in the toolkit carries metadata about its purpose and required inputs, so Claude's agents can reason about which tool to invoke next. You get an iterative loop: Claude reasons, runs a GPU-heavy computation via BioNeMo, the scientist inspects the output, refines the question, and Claude picks up where it left off. The models doing the heavy lifting — Evo 2, Boltz-2, Ope...