Citrini Research and Anthropic test Claude for scorpion antivenom development

Citrini Research collaborated with Anthropic to test an unreleased version of Claude in developing scorpion antivenom, aiming to design proteins that bind to scorpion venom toxins. Over 64 hours, Claude generated nearly 320,000 candidates, which were refined to 211 designs. Subsequent testing by Adaptyv Bio and Twist Biosciences found that only 17 proteins could bind to a single toxin among four, failing to achieve multi-toxin binding or drug viability. The experiment cost nearly $200,000 in compute and lab testing.