Anthropic Expands Its AI for Science Program to Leading Foundations, Institutions and Research Groups
We’ve expanded our AI for Science program beyond individual teams to support some of the world’s leading scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups.
Context
Free Claude access for large scientific groups could speed work in fields like genomics and astronomy, and it deepens Anthropic's ties with influential research funders.
Anthropic's AI for Science program gives researchers free Claude credits for high impact scientific work. Until now it focused on individual teams. The new partners include funders and institutions in biology, astronomy and other fields.
Deep dive
Anthropic said on Thursday that it has expanded its AI for Science program beyond individual teams to support some of the world's leading scientific foundations, institutions and research groups.
The post itself gave no list, but Anthropic's announcement and partner pages describe about 20 new partners. Coverage names funders such as the National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Sloan Foundation and Schmidt Sciences, and institutions including the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London, EMBL and the Gladstone Institutes. Projects named include AstroPath at Johns Hopkins, the FlyWire brain mapping effort and the gnomAD genetics database.
Partners receive free Claude credits, and several institutions say they will use Claude for data analysis, coding and literature work in their research. Imperial College describes a partnership exploring how AI could advance biological discovery.
The announcement does not include the dollar value of the credits or specific scientific results so far. It is a program expansion rather than a new capability, so it ranks lower in today's list, but it shows labs competing to embed their models in scientific research.
What to expect next
Watch for published results from the partner projects, which would show whether Claude meaningfully speeds research. Rivals such as OpenAI and Google DeepMind run their own science programs, so competition for top institutions is likely to grow. Questions about data access, reproducibility and how much researchers come to rely on one commercial provider will also matter. Funders may also push for open publication of any results produced with Claude.