Anthropic is expanding its support for the scientific community by opening 10,000 seats for researchers to access Claude subscriptions for free or at discounted rates for one year. This initiative includes a new Claude team plan for scientists, with standard seats provided at no cost and premium seats offering five times the usage limits for $15 per month.
- The program targets principal investigators and equivalent roles at academic or nonprofit research institutions.
- Researchers can apply for up to $50,000 in credits through the AI for Science program for ambitious, compute-heavy projects.
- Anthropic is broadening its AI for Science support beyond biological sciences to include other fields, such as those involving the Riemann zeta function and protein design.
- Access to specific model classes remains restricted; biology and chemistry researchers are limited to Opus-class models, while Mythos-class access is being developed in partnership with the US government.
Anthropic aims to radically accelerate scientific discovery by helping scientists access and increase their usage of Claude through these subscriptions, credits, and specialized products like Claude Science.