Intology unveils Locus, an autonomous AI scientist for molecular design
yusufroohani · x · 2026-11-04
Intology launched Locus, an automated research system that builds scientific AI models claimed to outperform SOTA expert solutions for molecular design. It autonomously leverages proprietary data, and was tested on: training molecular property prediction models for a proprietary task, fine-tuning Boltz-2 to predict small-molecule potency, and building antibody design workflows around BoltzGen, Boltz-2, ESMC, and ESMFold2. Practitioners in computational drug discovery highlighted that agentic tools are becoming increasingly useful in such workflows, particularly praising the fine-tuning results.
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