Anthropic expands AI for Science program to 20 organizations

Anthropic has expanded its AI for Science program to 20 scientific funders, institutions and research groups, providing free Claude credits for participating scientific work.

The announcement shifts the program from its initial focus on individual researchers toward organization-level partnerships intended to reach more scientists. Six funders and societies will distribute credits to researchers, six institutions will use credits within their organizations, and six research initiatives will receive credits directly. Two earlier organizational collaborations complete Anthropic’s list of 20.

Anthropic did not disclose the number or value of the credits, allocation schedules, usage limits or the number of researchers expected to receive access.

The 20 named organizations and projects

The funders and societies are the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, the Open Source for Science Fund at Renaissance Philanthropy, the US National Science Foundation, and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society.

The institutional partners are 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 six directly supported initiatives span several fields. FlyWire at Princeton University maps neural connections in the adult fruit-fly brain. LEAP at Columbia University combines machine learning, climate science and physical simulation. AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University applies astronomical image-analysis methods to spatial mapping of tumors and immune markers.

The other three are gnomAD, the Broad Institute’s reference of human genetic variation; Tau Ceti, an open-source formal-mathematics library in Lean; and the Centre for Population Genomics, which develops genomic resources with diverse Australian communities and supports rare-disease research.

Anthropic named HHMI Janelia Research Campus and the Allen Institute as earlier examples of organization-level work. The company said its Janelia collaboration produced a Model Hardware Standard for AI agents operating laboratory instruments, now in research preview, while the Allen Institute is building teams of AI agents to analyze biological datasets.

Anthropic launched AI for Science in May 2025, initially offering free API credits to selected researchers with an emphasis on biology and life sciences. Anthropic said many of the new collaborations remain at an early stage. Its announcement reports no controlled evaluations, completed studies attributable to the new credits, peer-reviewed results or measured research impact from the expansion.