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Anthropic is opening applications for a focused grant program within its AI for Science initiative, targeting rare genetic disease research with up to $50,000 in Claude API credits per recipient over six months. The program has two tracks: one for basic science researchers and one for early-stage biotechs accelerating drug development. Anthropic is partnering with the Monarch Initiative, an international rare disease consortium, and highlights use cases including mechanistic disease classification, regulatory documentation drafting, and therapeutic target analysis. The initiative reflects Anthropic's strategy of directing frontier model access toward high-impact scientific domains.
Anthropic and the Australian government have signed a Memorandum of Understanding to cooperate on AI safety research, aligned with Australia's National AI Plan. The agreement includes collaboration with Australia's AI Safety Institute on model capability evaluations and safety research, mirroring existing arrangements with safety institutes in the US, UK, and Japan. Anthropic is also committing AUD$3 million in Claude API credits to four Australian research institutions focused on genomics, rare disease diagnosis, and computing education, and is exploring data center infrastructure investments in Australia.