Anthropic commits $150M to Genesis Mission

Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to the Genesis Mission, the federal initiative that aims to speed up scientific and technological discovery through AI. The company announced the pledge at the Science: A New Golden Age Summit, hosted in Washington, DC by the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

The money will bring Claude to more than 15 agencies taking part in the mission, including NASA, the National Institutes of Health and the National Science Foundation. Anthropic says the commitment covers three things:

• Claude, Claude Code and API credits for several hundred Genesis Mission research projects
• Close work with agencies and national laboratories on the administration's top science priorities, including fusion energy and quantum computing
• Training, onboarding and technical support for scientists, plus help for agencies new to the mission in getting their first projects running

The pledge builds on a partnership Anthropic announced last December with the Department of Energy and the Genesis Mission. Since then, the company has worked with DOE to bring Claude to scientists across the national laboratories.

Much of the commitment appears to be product access, credits and support rather than direct cash funding. Anthropic did not say how the $150 million will be split across these categories, which projects will receive it, or how they will be chosen.

Anthropic describes the commitment as part of its wider push into science. Earlier this year it launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for researchers, and opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude seats for academic scientists. It also expanded its AI for Science credits program and started a research preview of the Model Hardware Standard, a shared specification for AI agents to safely operate lab instruments.