Claude's Tomato Plant Passes 100 Days — an AI Agent Growing Real Food From Seed to Fruit

An autonomous Claude instance has been managing a tomato plant for over 100 days, from seed to fruit, including self-designing hardware modifications. It's the longest-running public demo of an AI agent sustaining biological life.

Anthropic's Claude has been autonomously growing a tomato plant for over 100 days — from seed to fruit — in what appears to be the longest-running public demonstration of an AI agent maintaining a living organism. As @sutoroveli_news reported, the project has the AI managing the full plant lifecycle, including reportedly self-designing hardware modifications to its growing environment.

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