Anthropic is spotlighting 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups worldwide that have joined an expanded AI for Science program. The program provides free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects.
Anthropic launched AI for Science in May 2025, believing AI could greatly accelerate scientific progress. The aim is to widen access to AI tools and resources so researchers can deepen and extend their own work. In recent months Anthropic has also introduced a discounted Team plan for scientists. It has supported hundreds of projects in biology, medicine, physics, chemistry, climate science and mathematics.
Scientists report using Claude to generate hypotheses, design experiments, analyze complex data quickly and communicate results. With scientists leading this shift, the research community sets the questions and shapes the projects that can help address some of humanity's hardest problems.
Over the past year, Anthropic has begun partnering with scientific organizations on collaborative research projects. For example, Anthropic worked with HHMI Janelia Research Campus on the Model Hardware Standard (MHS), a shared specification that allows AI agents to operate lab instruments safely. MHS is currently in research preview. Anthropic also supports the Allen Institute, which creates large open datasets and tools for studying the brain, cells and the immune system. The institute is building teams of AI agents to analyze this data, cutting months of manual analysis down to hours.
AI for Science started by backing individual scientists. Partnering with institutions and foundations lets Anthropic reach more researchers across many fields. Many projects will also yield public goods for the wider scientific community, including open datasets, open-source software, open standards and shared libraries. Anthropic hopes AI resources will broaden what scientists can attempt and lead to new discoveries.
Science funders and societies
Funders and societies play a major role in identifying and financing original, high-impact projects. Anthropic is sharing Claude credits with the organizations below, which will pass them on to ambitious researchers aiming to apply AI to scientific research:
- The Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Founded in 1934, it supports original research and education in science, technology, engineering, mathematics and economics.
- The Simons Foundation. It advances research in mathematics and the basic sciences through grants and its Flatiron Institute.
- Schmidt Sciences. Founded in 2024 by Eric and Wendy Schmidt, it seeks to speed up scientific knowledge and breakthroughs using the most promising advanced tools to support a thriving planet. It prioritizes areas poised for impact, including AI and advanced computing, astrophysics, biosciences, climate and space, and supports researchers across disciplines through its science systems program.
- Open Source for Science Fund, a program of Renaissance Philanthropy. A time-limited philanthropic fund that sustains and develops the open-source software stack underpinning science.
- The US National Science Foundation. A $9 billion federal agency created by Congress in 1950 to promote scientific progress, advance national health and defense, and fund competitive research and education. It accounts for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities.
- CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society. For over a century CAS has indexed the world's published chemistry, and it maintains the CAS REGISTRY®, the standard system for identifying chemical substances.
Institutions
Leading research institutions produce many of the world's most important scientific advances, datasets, instruments and tools. These partners will use Claude credits within their organizations to enable discovery:
- Space Telescope Science Institute. STScI runs science operations for NASA's Hubble, James Webb and Roman space telescopes. Managed by the Association of Universities for Research in Astronomy (AURA), it also holds one of the largest astronomy data archives used worldwide.
- Wellcome Sanger Institute. A leading genomics center that generates genomic and functional data at scale, spanning human genetics, biodiversity and drug development.
- The Francis Crick Institute. A London-based institute, among Europe's largest biomedical research centers, with over 100 research groups studying the biology of health and disease.
- Imperial College London, Department of Life Sciences. One of Europe's largest life science departments, with research from single molecules to whole ecosystems, focused on health, disease and climate resilience.
- EMBL. The European Molecular Biology Laboratory is Europe's intergovernmental life science laboratory, with six sites providing research and services across experimental and computational biology. Its European Bioinformatics Institute (EMBL-EBI) hosts key open data resources biologists use daily, such as Ensembl, Protein Data Bank in Europe and Europe PMC.
- Gladstone Institutes. An independent San Francisco biomedical institute that integrates AI and data science into work on cardiology, neurology, infectious diseases, cancer and autoimmune diseases.
Research projects and initiatives
Anthropic is also continuing to back innovative research by giving Claude credits directly to specific initiatives that target problems with potential for large public impact. The new projects are:
- FlyWire, Princeton University (neuroscience). It produced the first complete wiring map of an adult fruit fly brain and develops open data and tools for connectomics, helping researchers learn how neural circuits produce perception and behavior.
- LEAP, Columbia University (Earth system). Learning the Earth with Artificial Intelligence and Physics is a National Science Foundation center combining machine learning with physics to improve how climate models represent clouds, oceans and land.
- AstroPath, Johns Hopkins University (cancer research). Built by a pathologist and an astrophysicist from the Mark Foundation Center for Advanced Genomics and Imaging and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy, it applies calibration methods from astronomical surveys to image tumors cell by cell, with consistent measurements across slides and labs.
- gnomAD, Broad Institute (genomics and rare disease). The Genome Aggregation Database pools DNA data from more than 800,000 people into an open reference of human genetic variation, used by researchers and clinical labs worldwide to support rare disease discovery and diagnosis.
- Tau Ceti (mathematics). An open, community-driven project building a shared autoformalized mathematics library in Lean, a language that lets computers verify every proof.
- Centre for Population Genomics. A joint initiative of Australia's Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Murdoch Children's Research Institute that works to include Australia's multicultural communities in genomic resources and builds tools for rare disease diagnosis.
What's next
Many of these collaborations are at an early stage, and Anthropic is keen to see how they can support new research and discovery. Anthropic looks forward to sharing the results and highlighting new ways of working in these fields.
As AI reshapes how science is done, Anthropic's AI for Science program will keep supporting and collaborating with scientists, institutions and foundations. Anthropic hopes to extend these efforts to more partners around the globe.