# Claude Produced 17 Lab-Confirmed Scorpion-Toxin Binders From 318,000 Designs, as Small Clinical Models Approach GPT-4 Scores

Anthropic's study showed binding but not neutralization, and the MedJev paper reports 72.5% on MedQA from a model that runs on a laptop.

- Published: 2026-10-28T06:21:21.801Z
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- Sources: [Anthropic Research](https://www.anthropic.com/research/claude-scorpion-toxin-binder-design), [arXiv cs.CL](https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.36006), [NVIDIA Blog](https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/open-source-ai-tools-cbrain-dementia/)

Anthropic reported that Claude designed protein binders against scorpion neurotoxins while working largely on its own. Claude ran 12 protein-design tools to generate 318,484 candidates in 64 hours and computationally screened 553,052 protei…

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