Waters Launches AI Link, Advancing AI-Enabled LC-MS Workflows from Research to Release
Key Highlights
- ➤Waters launches AI Link, bringing Anthropic MCP to waters_connect Software
- ➤Waters joins Anthropic’s MHS research program for autonomous instrument operation
- ➤AI Link enables natural-language control of Waters instruments and connected automation
- ➤AI Link available now for early access; general availability arrives in November
- ➤MHS aims to cut laboratory instrument integration from weeks or months to hours or minutes
Expert Statements
Dave Leitham, Vice President, Informatics, Waters Corporation
“AI can generate hypotheses faster than any lab can test them, so the bottleneck has moved from computation to the bench”
Dave Leitham, Vice President, Informatics, Waters Corporation
“Every hypothesis an AI model generates becomes a physical sample that has to be separated and measured, multiplying the sample volume running through our instruments and columns.”
Dave Leitham, Vice President, Informatics, Waters Corporation
“Waters has spent years building the compliant data foundation that regulated laboratories depend on. Our strategy is simple. In research, we connect AI agents to both the data and the instruments that generate it, so scientists can move at the speed of AI. That work carries forward on the same platform through development, then into Empower Software, the compliant system of record, as a molecule reaches quality control. No other company can support an AI-directed experiment from the research bench through to validated release, for small molecules and biologics alike, in a single continuous workflow. That is Waters' advantage, and it is why we are becoming a leader in the AI transformation of the laboratory.”
Waters Launches AI Link, Advancing AI-Enabled LC-MS Workflows from Research to Release PR Newswire
MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 13, 2026 * Accelerates research and development by enabling AI-augmented workflows and automated lab-in-the-loop cycles, already a new and fast-growing source of demand for Waters' instruments and consumables * Leverages Waters' unique ability to take an AI-directed experiment from the research bench into development and into Empower™ Software, carrying its audit trail as the molecule moves into downstream, regulated settings * Joins Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) research program designed to enable AI agents to operate Waters instrument hardware directly and autonomously, cutting instrument integration from weeks to hours * Brings Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to waters_connect™ Software, enabling scientists to direct Waters instruments through proprietary agents linked to large language models (LLMs), as well as Claude Science MILFORD, Mass., Oct. 13, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- Waters Corporation (NYSE: WAT) today announced that it has launched Waters AI Link, a software capability that brings Anthropic's Model Context Protocol (MCP) to its informatics platform and has joined Anthropic's Model Hardware Standard (MHS) research program.
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