Anthropic's Claude fails to invent scorpion antivenom
anthropic's claude generated 211 protein designs for scorpion antivenom but none were effective, showing ai's limitations in drug development.
anthropic collaborated with citrini research to use its unreleased claude model for designing proteins to bind to scorpion venom toxins. claude generated nearly 320,000 candidates, narrowing them down to 211 designs. citrini sent these designs to two labs for testing, costing $150,000, and 17 proteins showed promise. however, none were close to an actual drug, experts say. this experiment cost around $200,000 and took 64 hours, plus lab testing.