Anthropic expands AI for Science to 20 partners

Anthropic announced that it is expanding its AI for Science program to 20 scientific foundations, institutions and research groups. The program, launched in May 2025, gives free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact projects.

The partners fall into three groups. Six science funders and societies will hand out credits to researchers they select: the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation, Schmidt Sciences, Renaissance Philanthropy's Open Source for Science Fund, the US National Science Foundation, and CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society.

Six research institutions will use the credits internally: the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs science operations for Hubble, James Webb and Roman; the Wellcome Sanger Institute; the Francis Crick Institute; Imperial College London's Department of Life Sciences; EMBL; and the Gladstone Institutes.

The rest of the 20 receive credits directly as specific research initiatives. The source text available to us ends before that list, so those partners are not named here.

Anthropic described the move as shifting from supporting individual scientists to working through institutions in order to reach more researchers. It said many of the projects will produce public goods such as open datasets, open-source software, open standards and shared libraries. The company did not disclose the value of the credits or how they will be split among partners.

The announcement also mentions earlier collaborations. These include the Model Hardware Standard with HHMI Janelia, which we covered when it entered research preview, and support for the Allen Institute, which Anthropic says is building teams of AI agents to cut months of data analysis down to hours.