Anthropic Expands AI for Science Partnerships

Anthropic announced an expansion of its AI for Science program, partnering with 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups around the world. The program provides free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects. Anthropic says the partners will distribute credits to researchers or use them within their organizations to support scientific work.

Anthropic started the program in May 2025 to increase researchers’ access to AI tools and resources. Over the last few months, it also launched a discounted Team plan for scientists and says it has supported hundreds of projects in biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science and mathematics. Scientists have told Anthropic they use Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data and communicate findings.

The expansion includes six science funders and societies: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Open Source for Science Fund, US National Science Foundation and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. The US National Science Foundation is a $9 billion federal agency established in 1950; Anthropic says it accounts for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities. CAS has indexed published chemistry for more than a century and maintains the CAS Registry, a system for identifying chemical substances.

Institutional partners include the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences, EMBL and Gladstone Institutes. Their research spans astronomy, genomics, biomedical science, biology and other fields. EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute hosts open data resources including Ensembl, Protein Data Bank in Europe and Europe PMC; Gladstone integrates AI and data science in research on cardiology, neurology, infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Anthropic is also providing credits to six named research initiatives: FlyWire at Princeton University, LEAP at Columbia University, AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University, gnomAD at the Broad Institute, Tau Ceti and the Centre for Population Genomics. FlyWire produced the first complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly’s brain. LEAP combines machine learning with physics to improve how climate models capture clouds, oceans and land. AstroPath applies calibration methods from astronomical surveys to image tumors cell by cell, while gnomAD pools DNA data from over 800,000 people to support rare disease discovery and diagnosis.

Tau Ceti is building a shared autoformalized library of mathematics in Lean, a language that lets computers check every proof. The Centre for Population Genomics works to increase the inclusion of Australia’s multicultural communities in genomic resources and build tools for rare disease diagnosis. Anthropic says many collaborations remain in early stages and that the program will continue working with scientists and organizations, with hopes of expanding to more partners worldwide. The projects may also produce public resources such as open datasets, open-source software, open standards and shared libraries.

Anthropic announced an expansion of its AI for Science program, partnering with 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups around the world. The program provides free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects. Anthropic says the partners will distribute credits to researchers or use them within their organizations to support scientific work.

Anthropic started the program in May 2025 to increase researchers’ access to AI tools and resources. Over the last few months, it also launched a discounted Team plan for scientists and says it has supported hundreds of projects in biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science and mathematics. Scientists have told Anthropic they use Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data and communicate findings.

The expansion includes six science funders and societies: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Open Source for Science Fund, US National Science Foundation and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. The US National Science Foundation is a $9 billion federal agency established in 1950; Anthropic says it accounts for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities. CAS has indexed published chemistry for more than a century and maintains the CAS Registry, a system for identifying chemical substances.

Institutional partners include the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences, EMBL and Gladstone Institutes. Their research spans astronomy, genomics, biomedical science, biology and other fields. EMBL’s European Bioinformatics Institute hosts open data resources including Ensembl, Protein Data Bank in Europe and Europe PMC; Gladstone integrates AI and data science in research on cardiology, neurology, infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Anthropic is also providing credits to six named research initiatives: FlyWire at Princeton University, LEAP at Columbia University, AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University, gnomAD at the Broad Institute, Tau Ceti and the Centre for Population Genomics. FlyWire produced the first complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly’s brain. LEAP combines machine learning with physics to improve how climate models capture clouds, oceans and land. AstroPath applies calibration methods from astronomical surveys to image tumors cell by cell, while gnomAD pools DNA data from over 800,000 people to support rare disease discovery and diagnosis.

Tau Ceti is building a shared autoformalized library of mathematics in Lean, a language that lets computers check every proof. The Centre for Population Genomics works to increase the inclusion of Australia’s multicultural communities in genomic resources and build tools for rare disease diagnosis. Anthropic says many collaborations remain in early stages and that the program will continue working with scientists and organizations, with hopes of expanding to more partners worldwide. The projects may also produce public resources such as open datasets, open-source software, open standards and shared libraries.