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This week in AI for life science: Anthropic bets on agent infrastructure over bigger models, the virtual cell meets honest benchmarks, self-driving labs go mainstream, and spatial omics gets its foundation models — plus a new chapter from the lab.

Wei Ouyang and Hanzhao Zhang wrote the ‘Large Language Models and AI Agents’ chapter for AI in Microscopy: A BioImaging Guide (HHMI Janelia) — a tour from deep learning to autonomous, agent-driven bioimage analysis.