AI BriefingAnthropic expands AI for Science program with 20 new foundation and institutional partners
·2026.10.28 09:00
Key point
The expansion includes the US National Science Foundation, EMBL, and the Francis Crick Institute, which will distribute free Claude credits to researchers.
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- Anthropic has expanded its AI for Science program by partnering with 20 scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups to provide free Claude credits for high-impact scientific projects.
- The program, launched in May 2025, aims to increase access to AI tools for researchers, having previously supported hundreds of projects across biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, and mathematics.
- Partners include the US National Science Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, and Schmidt Sciences, which will distribute resources to ambitious researchers.
- Institutional partners include the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London, EMBL, and Gladstone Institutes.
- Specific research initiatives receiving support include FlyWire at Princeton University, LEAP at Columbia University, AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University, gnomAD at the Broad Institute, and the Tau Ceti mathematics project.
- The initiative seeks to produce public goods such as open datasets, open-source software, and open standards, building on earlier collaborations like the Model Hardware Standard with HHMI Janelia Research Campus.
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