Anthropic expands AI for Science with 18 new partners

A distribution network for research

The funding partners span philanthropy, government and scientific infrastructure. They include the $9 billion US National Science Foundation, which accounts for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities, and CAS, which indexes published chemistry research and maintains the CAS Registry®.

Other partners include the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences and the Open Source for Science Fund, a time-limited philanthropic fund supporting the open-source software stack used in science.

Research institutions will use credits internally to support scientific work. The group includes the Space Telescope Science Institute, which conducts science operations for NASA’s Hubble, James Webb and Roman space telescopes, and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory, whose EMBL-EBI maintains open resources including Ensembl, Protein Data Bank in Europe and Europe PMC.

The Wellcome Sanger Institute generates large-scale genomic and functional data.

The Francis Crick Institute has more than 100 research groups studying the biology of health and disease.

Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences works across scales, from individual molecules to ecosystems.

Gladstone Institutes applies AI and data science to research on heart disease, neurological and infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmune diseases.

Projects span biology, climate and mathematics

Anthropic is also providing Claude credits directly to six research initiatives:

FlyWire at Princeton University maps connections in the adult fruit fly brain and develops open connectomics data and tools.

LEAP at Columbia University combines machine learning and physics to improve climate modeling of clouds, oceans and land.

AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University applies calibration methods from astronomical surveys to tumor images, keeping measurements comparable across slides and laboratories.

gnomAD at the Broad Institute brings together DNA data from more than 800,000 people in an open reference of human genetic variation used to investigate rare diseases.

Tau Ceti is building an open, community-developed library of mathematical statements formalized in Lean, where computers can check each proof.

The Centre for Population Genomics, a joint initiative of the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, is expanding representation of Australia’s multicultural communities in genomic resources and developing tools for rare-disease diagnosis.

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The missing measure

Many partnerships are at an early stage, and Anthropic says it plans to share results and new approaches as the work develops. That makes this an expansion of access, not yet a report on scientific impact.

I think the more consequential test will be whether Claude credits help researchers produce results they could not otherwise reach, rather than simply adding another tool to already well-resourced institutions. The announcement does not say how much credit each partner will receive, how success will be measured, or what role Claude will play in the research. Anthropic plans to expand the program and bring in partners from other countries; its credibility will depend on showing what the support changes, not just where it goes.

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