Anthropic Expands AI for Science Program to Foundations and Institutions
Anthropic says it has partnered with 20 scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups to expand its AI for Science program.
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What did Anthropic announce about its AI for Science program?
Anthropic says it has expanded its AI for Science program by partnering with 20 scientific foundations, research institutions, and projects worldwide, providing free Claude credits to support work in biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, and mathematics, building on a program it started in May 2025.
Key takeaways
- Anthropic says it is highlighting 20 scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups it has partnered with as part of an expansion of its AI for Science program.
- The company says the program, started in May 2025, gives free Claude credits to researchers and has supported hundreds of projects across biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, and mathematics.
- Anthropic says six science funders and societies, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the Open Source for Science Fund, the US National Science Foundation, and CAS, will distribute Claude credits to researchers.
- Anthropic says six research institutions, including the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences, EMBL, and Gladstone Institutes, will use Claude credits internally.
- Anthropic says it is also funding six specific research projects, including FlyWire at Princeton, LEAP at Columbia, AstroPath at Johns Hopkins, gnomAD at the Broad Institute, the Tau Ceti mathematics project, and the Centre for Population Genomics.
Anthropic said it is expanding its AI for Science program by partnering with 20 scientific foundations, research institutions, and research projects around the world, giving them access to free Claude credits.
The company said it launched AI for Science in May 2025 on the premise that AI could speed up scientific progress, and that it has since also introduced a discounted Team plan for scientists. Anthropic said the program has supported hundreds of projects spanning biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, and mathematics. According to the company, scientists have used Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data, and communicate findings.
Anthropic said it previously partnered with HHMI Janelia Research Campus to develop the Model Hardware Standard, a specification intended to let AI agents operate lab instruments safely, which the company said is currently in research preview. It also said it supports the Allen Institute, which it described as building teams of AI agents to analyze large open datasets on the brain, cells, and the immune system.
Science funders and societies
Anthropic said it is sharing Claude credits with six science funders and societies that will distribute the resources to researchers:
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934, which supports research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, and economics.
- The Simons Foundation, which funds research in mathematics and basic sciences through grants and its Flatiron Institute.
- Schmidt Sciences, founded in 2024, which the company said prioritizes research including AI, astrophysics, biosciences, climate, and space.
- Open Source for Science Fund, a program of Renaissance Philanthropy supporting open-source software for science.
- The US National Science Foundation, which Anthropic described as a $9 billion federal agency that accounts for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities.
- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society that maintains the CAS Registry for identifying chemical substances.
Institutions
Anthropic named six research institutions that will use Claude credits internally: the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs science operations for NASA's Hubble, James Webb, and Roman telescopes; the Wellcome Sanger Institute, a genomics center; the Francis Crick Institute in London; Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences; EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory; and Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco.
Research projects and initiatives
The company also said it is funding six specific research initiatives directly:
| Project | Institution | Field |
|---|---|---|
| FlyWire | Princeton University | Neuroscience |
| LEAP | Columbia University | Earth system science |
| AstroPath | Johns Hopkins University | Cancer research |
| gnomAD | Broad Institute | Genomics and rare disease |
| Tau Ceti | Community-driven | Mathematics |
| Centre for Population Genomics | Garvan Institute / Murdoch Children's Research Institute | Genomics |
Anthropic described FlyWire as having produced the first complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly's brain, LEAP as a National Science Foundation center combining machine learning with physics for climate modeling, AstroPath as using calibration methods from astronomical surveys to image tumors, gnomAD as an open reference database pooling DNA data from more than 800,000 people, Tau Ceti as building a library of mathematics in the Lean proof-checking language, and the Centre for Population Genomics as working to include Australia's multicultural communities in genomic resources.
What's next
Anthropic said many of these collaborations are in early stages and that it intends to continue supporting scientists, institutions, and foundations through the program, with plans to expand to more partners.
Source: Anthropic, "AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions," published Oct. 28, 2026.
Frequently asked questions
- What is Anthropic's AI for Science program?
- Anthropic says it is a program, started in May 2025, that gives free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects across fields including biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, and mathematics.
- Which organizations are distributing Claude credits to researchers under this expansion?
- Anthropic says the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the Open Source for Science Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy, the US National Science Foundation, and CAS (a division of the American Chemical Society) will distribute credits.
- Which research institutions are receiving Claude credits directly?
- Anthropic names the Space Telescope Science Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences, EMBL, and Gladstone Institutes as institutional partners.
- What research projects is Anthropic funding as part of this expansion?
- Anthropic says it is providing credits to FlyWire (neuroscience, Princeton), LEAP (Earth system science, Columbia), AstroPath (cancer research, Johns Hopkins), gnomAD (genomics, Broad Institute), Tau Ceti (mathematics), and the Centre for Population Genomics.