Anthropic announces Claude Science, an autonomous research agent for scientific work
Anthropic unveiled Claude Science at an event for pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers, positioning it as a major product for scientific research analogous to what Claude Code is for software engineering. Like Claude Code, Claude Science can autonomously execute meaningful work from high-level instructions and has access to relevant tools. The announcement signals Anthropic's expansion into scientific AI agents as a distinct product category targeting life sciences and research workflows.
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Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientific research
Anthropic released Claude Science in beta, an AI-powered research environment integrating over 60 curated scientific tools and databases for genomics, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics. The platform features a coordinating agent with specialist sub-agents, a reviewer agent for citation and calculation checking, reproducible auditable artifacts, and flexible compute management across local machines, HPC clusters, and on-demand GPUs. It integrates with NVIDIA's BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, connecting to models like Evo 2, Boltz-2, and OpenFold3. Available to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users, this represents Anthropic's most significant expansion into scientific AI tooling.
Anthropic launches Claude Science product page
Anthropic has published a dedicated product page for 'Claude Science,' signaling a focused offering targeting scientific research use cases. The HN post generated 291 points and 100 comments, indicating meaningful community interest. The nature of the product — whether a specialized model, interface, or feature bundle — is not detailed in the source snippet, but the dedicated URL suggests a formal product launch.
How scientists are using Claude to accelerate research and discovery
Anthropic describes how researchers are deploying Claude-powered systems across scientific workflows, highlighting three case studies: Biomni (a Stanford agentic platform integrating hundreds of biomedical tools), the Cheeseman Lab (automating large-scale gene knockout experiment interpretation), and others. The piece details Claude for Life Sciences and the AI for Science program, which provides free API credits to high-impact research projects. Specific benchmarks cited include compressing months-long GWAS analyses to 20 minutes and analyzing 336,000 single-cell datasets to identify novel transcription factors.
Anthropic Partners with Allen Institute and HHMI to Deploy Claude in Frontier Life Sciences Research
Anthropic has announced flagship partnerships with the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) to embed Claude into active scientific workflows at both institutions. HHMI's collaboration, anchored at Janelia Research Campus, focuses on developing specialized AI agents integrated with scientific instruments and analysis pipelines. The Allen Institute partnership targets multi-agent systems for multi-modal biological data analysis, including multi-omic integration, knowledge graph management, and experimental design coordination. Both partnerships emphasize interpretability, researcher autonomy, and transparency, with the stated goal of compressing months of manual analysis while keeping human scientists in control of scientific direction.
Anthropic Launches Claude for Life Sciences with New Connectors, Agent Skills, and Benchmark Improvements
Anthropic has announced a dedicated life sciences offering for Claude, targeting the full drug discovery and commercialization pipeline rather than individual tasks. Claude Sonnet 4.5 achieves 0.83 on the Protocol QA benchmark (above the human baseline of 0.79) and shows improvements on BioRench bioinformatics evaluations. The launch includes new connectors to platforms such as Benchling, BioRender, PubMed, Synapse.org, and 10x Genomics, plus a new Agent Skills framework starting with a single-cell RNA QC skill. Anthropic is partnering with major consultancies (Deloitte, Accenture, KPMG, PwC) and cloud providers (AWS, Google Cloud), with Sanofi cited as a flagship enterprise customer.
Anthropic partners with U.S. National Labs for 1,000 Scientist AI Jam evaluating Claude on scientific tasks
Anthropic is participating in the U.S. Department of Energy's first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam, bringing together scientists across multiple National Laboratories to evaluate frontier AI models on scientific research and national security applications. Claude 3.7 Sonnet, recently launched as the first hybrid reasoning model, will be a primary subject of evaluation across tasks including hypothesis generation, experiment planning, code generation, and result analysis. This builds on Anthropic's April 2024 collaboration with the National Nuclear Security Administration, which was the first instance of a frontier lab evaluating a model in a Top Secret classified environment. The partnership signals deepening government-industry collaboration on AI for scientific discovery and national security.
Anthropic Launches Claude for Healthcare and Expands Life Sciences Capabilities
Anthropic is expanding its healthcare and life sciences offerings with Claude for Healthcare, a HIPAA-ready product suite for providers, payers, and health tech companies, alongside new connectors to CMS databases, ICD-10, NPI Registry, and FHIR development tools. The announcement also highlights Claude Opus 4.5's improved performance on medical benchmarks including MedCalc and MedAgentBench, with extended thinking (64k tokens) and native tool use. New life sciences capabilities include connections to additional scientific platforms and support for clinical trial management and regulatory operations. The release positions Claude as an agentic research and administrative partner across healthcare workflows including prior authorization, claims appeals, and patient care coordination.
Anthropic and Salesforce Expand Partnership to Bring Claude to Regulated Industries via Agentforce
Anthropic and Salesforce have announced an expanded partnership making Claude a preferred foundational model for Salesforce's Agentforce platform, with a focus on regulated industries including financial services, healthcare, cybersecurity, and life sciences. Claude operates within Salesforce's virtual private cloud trust boundary via Amazon Bedrock, making Anthropic the first LLM provider fully integrated within that boundary. The partnership also includes Salesforce deploying Claude Code across its global engineering organization, a bidirectional Slack-Claude integration via MCP server, and plans to co-develop industry-specific AI solutions starting with financial services. Early adopters include RBC Wealth Management and CrowdStrike.