Anthropic and HHMI Janelia announce a partnership
Partnership Provisional 86% confidence first seen
Anthropic and HHMI Janelia announced a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared read/write interface that lets AI agents operate programmable lab and factory equipment using standard drivers plus plain-language safety tags. The coverage says early partner demos—including at Genentech, Carnegie Mellon, and QuEra—used MHS, with QuEra’s agent recovering a quantum laser’s lock in 695 of 700 trials. If adopted, the standard is intended to reduce the time to integrate agent software with physical hardware from weeks or months to hours or minutes, enabling more automated experiments under expert oversight.