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Anthropic Expands AI for Science Program to 20 Partners
Anthropic says its AI for Science program has expanded to include 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups. The announcement names six funders and societies, six institutional partners and six research projects receiving
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Credits reach beyond individual scientists
Anthropic announced an expansion of its AI for Science program, highlighting 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups it has partnered with. The program provides free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects. The announcement names six funders and societies, six institutional partners and six research projects or initiatives in lists describing credit distribution.
Anthropic says its goal is to increase access to AI tools and resources so researchers can deepen and expand their own scientific work. The company reports that scientists have told it they use Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data and communicate findings. The announcement does not specify how many credits each listed group will receive, how long they will last or how many researchers will gain access.
Anthropic says many of the collaborations may also produce resources for researchers outside participating organizations, including open datasets, open-source software, shared standards and libraries. The announcement describes these as potential public goods, without setting out deliverables or deadlines.
Six funders and societies will distribute credits
The organizations named as funders and scientific societies include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences and Renaissance Philanthropy’s Open Source for Science Fund. Anthropic also lists the U.S. National Science Foundation and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society.
Anthropic says these organizations will distribute Claude credits to researchers aiming to use AI for scientific research. The announcement does not describe a common application process or explain how each organization will choose recipients.
Institutes bring astronomy, genomics and biomedicine
Anthropic names six institutional partners: the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Gladstone Institutes. Their work spans fields from astronomy and genomics to biomedical research. The announcement says these institutions will use Claude credits within their organizations.
Some partners hold or produce large research datasets. The Space Telescope Science Institute runs science operations for NASA’s Hubble, James Webb and Roman telescopes and holds a large astronomy data archive. The Wellcome Sanger Institute generates genomic and functional data. EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute hosts public biological resources including Ensembl, the Protein Data Bank in Europe and Europe PMC.
Six projects add climate, cancer and mathematics
The project list includes FlyWire at Princeton University, which develops open tools and data for mapping neural connections, and LEAP, a National Science Foundation center focused on improving climate models with machine learning and physics. Other named projects include AstroPath, a cancer-imaging project at Johns Hopkins University, and gnomAD, a Broad Institute database that aggregates genetic data from more than 800,000 people.
Anthropic also names Tau Ceti, an open mathematics project building a machine-checkable library of proofs, and the Centre for Population Genomics, an Australian initiative focused on broader representation in genomic resources and rare-disease diagnosis. The announcement separately discusses work with the Allen Institute and HHMI Janelia Research Campus; it does not identify those two collaborations as previously announced.
Anthropic says its work with Janelia includes the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification for AI agents operating lab instruments that is in research preview. The company says the Allen Institute is building teams of AI agents to analyze research data. The announcement does not specify how much Claude access the newly named partners will receive or what results their projects will produce.