Anthropic Expands 'AI for Science' Program to 20 Foundations and Research Institutions
Anthropic announced the expansion of its 'AI for Science' program to partner with 20 global scientific foundations, institutions, and research groups, providing free Claude credits to support high-impact scientific research and open scientific goods.
On October 28, 2026, Anthropic announced it is expanding its "AI for Science" program from supporting individual scientists to partnering with 20 scientific foundations, research institutions, and specific research projects worldwide. The program provides free Claude credits to researchers working on high-impact scientific projects.
New partners include major science funders such as the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation, founded in 1934; the Simons Foundation, which advances mathematics and basic sciences through grants and its Flatiron Institute; Schmidt Sciences, founded in 2024 by Eric and Wendy Schmidt; and the Open Source for Science Fund, a program of Renaissance Philanthropy. Notably, the list includes the US National Science Foundation (NSF), a federal agency accounting for about 25% of federal support for basic research at US colleges and universities, as well as CAS, a division of the American Chemical Society.
Leading research institutions joining the program include the Space Telescope Science Institute (STScI), which runs science operations for NASA’s Hubble, James Webb, and Roman space telescopes; the Wellcome Sanger Institute in the UK; the Francis Crick Institute in London; Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences; the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL); and Gladstone Institutes in San Francisco.
Anthropic is also directly supporting specific initiatives, such as FlyWire at Princeton University (neuroscience), LEAP at Columbia University (Earth system modeling), AstroPath at Johns Hopkins University (cancer research), gnomAD at the Broad Institute (genomics), Tau Ceti (mathematics autoformalization in Lean), and the Centre for Population Genomics in Australia.