Xaira launches X-Scientist agentic drug discovery platform

Bo Wang @BoWang87Originally posted 2026.10.22

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Meet X-Scientist: our step toward a self-improving virtual drug hunter! Today, we’re introducing Xaira’s agentic AI platform for drug discovery: 🧠 Beats Codex using the same Astra model by 7.4 percentage points on DrugDiscoveryBench. 🧬 Nominates targets ~10× faster than human curation, with a comparable wet-lab hit rate. 🔁 Conducts autonomous research, outperforming AutoResearch and AutoScientists in the PerturbQA benchmark. Here’s what we built, what we tested, and where we’re going. 🧵