Anthropic is partnering with the Gates Foundation to commit $200 million in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support for programs in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility over the next four years. These programs will be carried out with partners in the US and internationally.
This commitment is central to Anthropic's efforts to bring the benefits of AI to areas where markets alone fall short. The work is led by Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team, which provides Claude credits and engineering support to partners across four priority areas. The team also builds AI-related public goods-such as public health datasets and evaluation benchmarks-and offers nonprofits and educational institutions discounted access to Claude. Anthropic is increasing its investment in beneficial deployments and plans to share more about the approach and impact of supported programs.
Below is an outline of what the partnership with the Gates Foundation involves, including new initiatives and work already in progress.
Global health and life sciences
The largest portion of the partnership focuses on improving health outcomes in low- and middle-income countries, where roughly 4.6 billion people lack access to essential health services. Anthropic will collaborate with the Gates Foundation and others on a range of new and existing programs aimed at accelerating vaccine and therapy development and helping governments use health data to make faster, better-informed decisions.
As part of this healthcare-intelligence work, Anthropic will create connectors (which give Claude direct access to other platforms and tools), benchmarks, and evaluation frameworks that allow researchers, developers, and governments to better understand how AI systems perform on healthcare-related tasks.
Additionally, Anthropic will work with the Gates Foundation to engage health ministries and their implementing partners on using health-intelligence data to support decision-making around workforce deployment, supply chain management, and outbreak detection. Together, they will explore how AI can better assist frontline health workers and patients with diagnosis, treatment, and medical decision-making.
Claude will also be used to advance research on high-burden and neglected diseases. Scientists already use Claude to detect patterns in systematic reviews and large datasets, and to screen potential drug and vaccine candidates. The partnership with the Gates Foundation will extend this work to overlooked diseases, starting with polio, HPV, and eclampsia/preeclampsia.
The partnership will explore how AI can make it faster and easier for scientists to computationally screen potential vaccine candidates-including vaccines that protect against diseases like polio-before moving into pre-clinical development, potentially shortening the early-stage development timeline. A related effort will use Claude to screen for new therapies for HPV and preeclampsia, which cause cervical cancer and dangerous pregnancy disorders, respectively. HPV causes roughly 350,000 deaths annually, of which 90% occur in low- and middle-income countries.
Finally, Anthropic is partnering with the Institute for Disease Modeling (IDM), a research group within the Gates Foundation, to improve the forecasts that determine where and how treatments for diseases like malaria and tuberculosis are deployed. An integration with Claude will make IDM's forecasts more accessible to practitioners and researchers who aren't modeling specialists, and will help IDM develop more predictive models of disease transmission.
Education
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are also co-developing tools to improve educational outcomes for K-12 students in the US, sub-Saharan Africa, and India. This includes creating public goods-like model benchmarks, datasets, and knowledge graphs-to ensure AI tools for math tutoring, college advising, and curriculum design are effective. The first of these will be released publicly later this year.
In the US, Claude will power educational tools that provide evidence-based tutoring to K-12 students, as well as career guidance for students entering the workforce. In sub-Saharan Africa and India, AI-powered apps are being created to support foundational literacy and numeracy programs. Along with the Gates Foundation and other partners, this work has begun as part of the broader Global AI for Learning Alliance (GAILA).
Economic mobility
The partnership will also support programs designed to improve economic mobility. One of the Gates Foundation's focus areas is increasing agricultural productivity to improve the livelihoods of the nearly two billion people whose incomes depend on smallholder farming. Anthropic will support this work by making agriculture-specific improvements to Claude, developing datasets of local crops, and creating benchmarks to evaluate how Anthropic's models perform in agricultural applications, before releasing these tools as public goods.
In the US, the partnership will span three areas: developing portable records of a person's skills and certifications to carry across schools and jobs; providing trustworthy career guidance for new job market entrants and those retraining; and creating tools that link data from training programs to employment outcomes in order to measure which economic mobility interventions improve job and wage outcomes.
Conclusion
The Gates Foundation brings decades of experience and a track record of measurable impact in global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. Anthropic looks forward to working with the Foundation and its partners to set up these programs and apply Claude to real-world problems.
As the partnership scales over the coming years-and as Anthropic ramps up its beneficial deployments work more broadly-the company expects to learn much more about how Claude can make a difference, and intends to publish its thinking and decision-making along the way.