Key Takeaways
Anthropic released Claude Science, a beta app that brings scientific databases, reproducible artifacts, and on-demand computing into one research workbench.
It comes pre-configured with more than 60 scientific databases and traces every result back to the code that produced it.
The beta is open to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users on macOS and Linux, with a funded AI for Science program attached.
Anthropic released Claude Science on June 30, a beta app that pulls the scattered tools of modern research into a single workbench for scientists. The company is aiming the product at researchers and the pharmaceutical industry, according to STAT.
The product is built around a few ideas. It comes pre-configured with more than 60 scientific databases that researchers can connect, it renders artifacts like three-dimensional protein structures and genome browser tracks directly, and it gives every output an auditable history so a result can be traced back to the code that produced it. Anthropic also lets users spin up computing resources on demand. Claude Science is an app rather than a new model, and it runs on the same Claude models a customer's plan already includes.
Who can use it
The beta is open to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users on macOS and Linux. Researchers testing it early have used it for tasks like single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, CRISPR screen design, protein structure prediction, and cheminformatics. Anthropic is also running an AI for Science program that will back up to 50 projects with as much as $30,000 in credits each, with applications open through July 15.
The launch lands in a crowded moment for AI aimed at research, with labs and startups racing to turn general models into tools scientists actually trust. The reproducible, traceable artifacts are the part worth watching, because the usual knock on AI in science is that you cannot check its work. WYDE has tracked the same push into public and social good through Anthropic's Claude Corps for nonprofits and California's deal to put Claude in state agencies. None of this is the same as a discovery. What is new is the workbench built to help make one.
People Also Ask
What is Claude Science?
It is a beta app from Anthropic that brings scientific databases, reproducible artifacts, and on-demand computing into one research workbench. It uses the Claude models in a user's existing plan.
Who can access Claude Science?
The beta is available to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users on macOS and Linux.
What can researchers do with it?
Early users have run single-cell RNA sequencing analysis, CRISPR screen design, protein structure prediction, and cheminformatics, with results traced back to their code.
Is Anthropic funding science projects?
Yes. Its AI for Science program will support up to 50 projects with as much as $30,000 in credits each, with applications open through July 15.