Anthropic: Claude designed scorpion-toxin minibinders in 64-hour campaign

Anthropic published results from an exploratory protein-design campaign in which Claude generated 318,484 minibinder designs against five scorpion neurotoxins. Of 211 designs sent for lab testing, 17 met predefined binding criteria; toxin neutralization and in vivo efficacy were not tested.

• Claude produced 318,484 designs across 553,052 design-toxin pairs
• 17 of 211 lab-tested designs met predefined binding criteria
• Adaptyv Bio and Twist Bioscience ran the assays; campaign took about 64 hours
• No antivenom: neutralization in cells or organisms was not evaluated