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Morning Edition · Thursday, August 20, 2026Published at 2:25 AM EDT · New York
Anthropic Says Claude Designed 1,320 Protein Binders and 354 of Them Bound in the Lab
The agents hit 14 of 15 targets for a 26.8 percent overall hit rate, rising to 49 percent among designs the model itself ranked first.
Anthropic gave Claude Opus 4.8 and an unreleased model it calls Mythos Preview a set of biological targets and asked each for 30 candidate minibinders. Of 1,320 designs synthesized and tested, 354 bound to their target, a hit rate of 26.8 p…
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