37,000-agent virtual drug company: the engineering behind Virtual Biotech
bravo_abad · x · 2026-09-22
The Virtual Biotech paper in Science describes a virtual CSO running eight AI scientists like a small drug company with 37,000+ agents. The author highlights the engineering: each agent starts from just a system prompt and one trial ID; tools are typed Python signatures; nothing counts as output until it passes schema validation; and the read-only reviewer is the cheapest model yet still catches errors.
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