@nc_frey
Head of Drug Discovery & Development Research @AnthropicAI | previously CTO & Co-Founder @CoefficientBio (acq. by @AnthropicAI) | ex-@Genentech | @MIT @Penn
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Anthropic reports 17 of 211 lab-tested designs met binding criteria, but none were tested for toxin neutralization.
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Anthropic says applications for its STEM and Conceptual Reasoning fellowships have an October 28 deadline.
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Anthropic credits custom GPU software with part of the speedup and says it is open-sourcing all the optimization code. It also announced a protein design competition with Adaptyv Bio, with plans to experimentally validate more than 5,000 designs.
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Anthropic says the beta is for academic labs, startups, pharma companies and other teams, with new safeguards intended to support biology work and better protect against misuse.
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The user pairs that optimism with gratitude for colleagues’ long-running work on AI alignment: steering AI toward good outcomes for humanity and away from bad ones.
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The company describes misuse attempts involving cyberattacks, influence operations, surveillance, biology and building weapons. A user quoting the announcement calls Claude itself “a form of mass surveillance.”
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Anthropic reports Claude designed viable protein binders for 14 of 15 targets using expert prompts.