Anthropic gives free Claude access to 20 major science organizations

Anthropic is expanding its AI for Science program from individual researchers to 20 foundations, institutes and research groups. The partners will receive free Claude credits or distribute them to scientists, giving the model a wider route into research infrastructure.

Funders in the program include the U.S. National Science Foundation, the Simons Foundation, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation and Schmidt Sciences. Institutions using credits internally include the Space Telescope Science Institute, which operates science programs for Hubble and James Webb, plus the Wellcome Sanger Institute, the Francis Crick Institute, Imperial College London and the European Molecular Biology Laboratory.

Anthropic is also supplying credits directly to projects in neuroscience, climate modeling, cancer imaging, genomics and formal mathematics. Several are expected to produce public resources such as open datasets, software, standards and shared libraries. The company did not disclose the monetary value or volume of credits.

The move matters less as a one-off giveaway than as distribution: Anthropic is placing Claude inside organizations that fund research, run major scientific infrastructure and maintain widely used datasets. That could make AI-assisted hypothesis generation, data analysis and experimental planning more routine, while giving Anthropic feedback from demanding scientific workflows.