Anthropic partners with University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute on AI economic research
Anthropic announced a partnership with the University of Chicago's Becker Friedman Institute for Economics (BFI) to study AI's impact on labor markets and the broader economy. BFI faculty will receive Claude for Enterprise access, training sessions, and virtual workshops as part of the collaboration. The partnership extends Anthropic's Economic Index initiative, aiming to combine Anthropic's usage data with BFI's economic expertise to produce more rigorous analysis of AI's distributional, productivity, and labor market effects for policymakers.
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Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Program for AI Labor Market Research
Anthropic has announced the Economic Futures Program, a structured initiative to fund and coordinate research on AI's economic and labor market impacts. The program operates through three pillars: research grants (up to $50,000 per award), evidence-based policy symposia in Washington DC and London, and expansion of the Anthropic Economic Index into longitudinal datasets. It extends Anthropic's existing Economic Index work by adding grant funding, policy forums, and institutional partnerships to translate data into actionable policy proposals.
Anthropic Launches Economic Index: First Large-Scale Empirical Study of AI's Labor Market Impact
Anthropic has released the Anthropic Economic Index, an initiative tracking AI's effects on labor markets using anonymized data from approximately one million Claude.ai conversations matched to U.S. Department of Labor O*NET occupational tasks. Key findings show AI use is concentrated in software development and technical writing, with 36% of occupations seeing AI use in at least 25% of their tasks, and usage skewing toward augmentation (57%) over automation (43%). The underlying dataset is being open-sourced to enable independent research, and Anthropic is inviting economists and policy experts to contribute to the ongoing initiative. The analysis was enabled by Clio, Anthropic's privacy-preserving internal conversation analysis tool.
Anthropic forms Economic Advisory Council to guide AI labor market research
Anthropic announced the formation of an Economic Advisory Council comprising ten distinguished economists from institutions including MIT, University of Chicago, Harvard, LSE, and Yale. The council will advise on AI's impact on labor markets, economic growth, and socioeconomic systems, informing the research agenda for Anthropic's Economic Index initiative. The move signals Anthropic's intent to build credible, policy-relevant research infrastructure around AI's economic effects, targeting policymakers and business leaders as an audience.
Anthropic Launches Economic Futures Programme in UK and Europe
Anthropic is expanding its Economic Futures Programme to the UK and Europe, beginning with a symposium at the London School of Economics and Political Science. The programme offers research grants, API credits, and evidence-based policy forums for UK and EU researchers studying AI's effects on labor markets and productivity. Anthropic is also expanding the Anthropic Economic Index to provide more granular, Europe-specific data on AI adoption patterns across industries and regions. Country-level usage data reveals distinct adoption patterns: academic research in the UK, manufacturing support in Germany, and culture/tourism in France.
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 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 forms $200 million partnership with the Gates Foundation
Anthropic and the Gates Foundation are committing $200 million over four years in grant funding, Claude usage credits, and technical support across global health, life sciences, education, and economic mobility. Key technical deliverables include healthcare AI benchmarks and evaluation frameworks, disease modeling integrations with the Institute for Disease Modeling, drug/vaccine screening tools for neglected diseases, and agricultural AI datasets. The partnership is led by Anthropic's Beneficial Deployments team and includes public goods such as open datasets and benchmarks. This represents a significant scaling of Anthropic's non-commercial AI deployment strategy.
Anthropic partners with BCG to bring Claude to enterprise customers
Anthropic announced a collaboration with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to deploy Claude models—including Claude 2—across BCG's enterprise client base. Use cases span knowledge management, market research, fraud detection, demand forecasting, and business analysis. BCG will also use Claude internally and advise clients on responsible AI deployment, with both organizations framing the partnership around ethical AI standards.