Anthropic said it is widening its AI for Science program to 20 foundations, research institutions and groups working across science.
Anthropic said it is expanding its AI for Science program beyond individual researchers to 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups, broadening a initiative that provides free Claude credits for high-impact scientific work. The company said the program is meant to widen access to AI tools for tasks such as hypothesis generation, experimental design, complex-data analysis and communicating findings.
In its Oct. 28, 2026 announcement, Anthropic said the expansion includes partners that will distribute Claude credits to researchers and institutions working across fields including biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science, mathematics and astronomy. The company said the program began in May 2025 and has already supported hundreds of projects.
Anthropic said the new science funders and societies include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Open Source for Science Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy, the U.S. National Science Foundation and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. It said institutional partners include the Space Telescope Science Institute, Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences, the European Molecular Biology Laboratory and Gladstone Institutes.
The company also cited project-level support for 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. Anthropic said these collaborations are intended to produce public goods such as open datasets, open-source software, open standards and shared libraries.
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