Anthropic extends free Claude access to 20 science groups, including San Francisco's Gladstone Institutes
The AI company also helped write a standard that lets AI agents safely run lab instruments.
Anthropic, the San Francisco company that makes the Claude AI chatbot, said Oct. 28 that it is widening a program that gives scientists free use of Claude to 20 foundations, institutions and research groups.
Some partners, including the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, the Simons Foundation and the U.S. National Science Foundation, will hand out Claude credits, prepaid use of the AI, to researchers they pick. Others will use the credits in their own labs. They include the Space Telescope Science Institute, which runs science operations for NASA's Hubble and James Webb telescopes, and the Gladstone Institutes, an independent medical research institute in San Francisco.
Anthropic also said it worked with HHMI Janelia Research Campus, a research center run by the Howard Hughes Medical Institute, to create the Model Hardware Standard. It is a shared set of rules that lets AI agents safely operate lab instruments, and it is still an early test version.
The program began in May 2025. Anthropic said many of the projects will produce free public resources, such as open data and software.
Source: Anthropic, "AI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions," Oct. 28, 2026.