Anthropic Expands AI for Science Program to Institutions and Foundations

Expanding access to Claude for scientific research

Anthropic announced on Oct. 28, 2026, that it is expanding its AI for Science program, naming 20 scientific foundations, research institutions and projects it has partnered with to extend free Claude credits to researchers. The company says the program began in May 2025 on the premise that AI could speed up scientific progress, and that it has since supported hundreds of projects spanning biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science and mathematics.

Anthropic says it has also introduced a discounted Team plan for scientists in recent months. According to the company, researchers have used Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data and communicate findings.

Science funders and societies

Anthropic says six funding organizations will now distribute Claude credits to researchers they support:

• The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation
• The Simons Foundation
• Schmidt Sciences
• The Open Source for Science Fund, a program of Renaissance Philanthropy
• The US National Science Foundation
• CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society

Institutions

Anthropic says the following research institutions will use Claude credits internally to support their scientific work:

• Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs science operations for NASA's Hubble, James Webb and Roman space telescopes
• Wellcome Sanger Institute, a genomics research center
• The Francis Crick Institute, a biomedical research institute in London
• Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences
• EMBL, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory
• Gladstone Institutes, a biomedical research institute in San Francisco

Research projects and initiatives

Anthropic says it is also funding six specific research projects directly with Claude credits:

• FlyWire at Princeton University, a neuroscience project that produced a complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly's brain
• LEAP at Columbia University, a National Science Foundation center combining machine learning with physics to improve climate models
• AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University, which applies astronomical imaging calibration methods to cancer tissue analysis
• gnomAD at the Broad Institute, a genomic database drawing on DNA data from more than 800,000 people
• Tau Ceti, a community project building a library of formalized mathematics in the Lean proof language
• Centre for Population Genomics, a joint initiative of Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute

Existing collaborations

Anthropic says it previously partnered with HHMI Janelia Research Campus to develop the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification that lets AI agents operate laboratory instruments; the standard is currently in research preview, according to the company. Anthropic also says it supports the Allen Institute, which is building teams of AI agents to analyze large open datasets on the brain, cells and the immune system.

The company says many of the new collaborations are in early stages and that it expects some projects to produce public goods such as open datasets, open-source software and shared libraries.

Source: Anthropic, "AI for Science expands to foundations and institutions," published Oct. 28, 2026.