Claude Designed 211 Proteins in Two Days. The Memes-in-Slack Phase Took Two Months

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Citrini Research used an unreleased Anthropic model to design scorpion toxin binders in 64 hours, then spent two months waiting on a wet lab. 17 of 211 bound.
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A five-person equity research firm with no biologists flew to Anthropic's New York office, ran an unreleased Claude research model against five scorpion neurotoxins, and generated 318,484 designs in 64 hours. Labs tested 211; 17 bound. None bound more than one toxin, and nothing was tested for neutralization. Design took days. Everything after it took two months.