In Ian Quigley's setup, an agent receives a molecule catalog, a budget of 100 molecules, and the target, and is asked to find the best binder without other information.

“We're not doing those right now. We're just doing, can we find molecules that bind better to the thing that we're interested in? And so what we do is we take mode-- we take an agent, like a language model, and then we say, "Here's a catalog that you could look at.”

“You have a budget of a hundred molecules. We're not gonna tell you anything except the target, and, uh, go find the best binder you can." And so different agents try different stuff.”