Anthropic Launches 'Labs' Team to Incubate Experimental AI Products
Anthropic is formalizing and expanding 'Labs,' an internal team dedicated to incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities. Mike Krieger (Instagram co-founder, former Anthropic CPO) is joining Labs alongside Ben Mann, while Ami Vora takes over as head of the Product organization. The announcement cites Claude Code, MCP, and Cowork as products that emerged from this experimental approach, and signals a structural reorganization to separate frontier experimentation from scaling established products.
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Anthropic Forms New Enterprise AI Services Company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs
Anthropic has announced the formation of a new AI services company co-founded with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, backed by a consortium including General Atlantic, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. The firm will deploy Claude into core operations of mid-sized enterprises—community banks, manufacturers, regional health systems—using embedded Applied AI engineers from Anthropic alongside the new company's own engineering staff. The venture extends Anthropic's existing Claude Partner Network (which includes Accenture, Deloitte, and PwC) by targeting a market segment that lacks in-house resources for frontier AI deployments. This represents a significant structural move by Anthropic to capture enterprise deployment revenue through a dedicated services vehicle rather than purely through API licensing.
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 The Anthropic Institute for AI Societal Impact Research
Anthropic is establishing The Anthropic Institute, a new interdisciplinary research body led by co-founder Jack Clark in his new role as Head of Public Benefit. The Institute consolidates and expands three existing Anthropic teams—Frontier Red Team, Societal Impacts, and Economic Research—to study AI's effects on economies, jobs, governance, and legal systems. Notable founding hires include Matt Botvinick (AI and rule of law), Anton Korinek (transformative AI economics), and Zoë Hitzig (AI social/economic impacts). Anthropic is simultaneously expanding its Public Policy organization and opening a Washington DC office.
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 Design: AI-Powered Visual Design and Prototyping Tool
Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product under its Anthropic Labs umbrella that enables collaborative visual design work including prototypes, slides, wireframes, and marketing collateral. Powered by Claude Opus 4.7, the tool supports brand system ingestion, inline editing, multi-user collaboration, and direct handoff to Claude Code for implementation. It is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers, with integrations including Canva and PPTX export. The product targets both professional designers seeking faster exploration and non-designers needing to produce visual work.
Anthropic announces 'Code with Claude' — its first developer conference
Anthropic announced Code with Claude, its first developer conference, held May 22, 2025 in San Francisco at The Midway. The one-day event targets a select group of developers and founders, with sessions covering the Anthropic API, Claude Code, Model Context Protocol (MCP), AI agent implementation strategies, and tool use patterns. Attendees will hear from Anthropic's executive and product teams and participate in interactive labs and office hours.
Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
Anthropic has hired Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, as its Chief Product Officer. Krieger will oversee product engineering, product management, and design as Anthropic expands its enterprise applications and Claude's reach. The hire signals Anthropic's intent to scale consumer and enterprise product efforts, bringing in a leader with experience growing platforms to over a billion users.
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.