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Anthropic Unveils Claude Science AI Workbench, Offers $30K Grants

6/30/2026

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Anthropic Launches ClaudeScience

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that unifies computational research in the United States.
Claude Science runs existing Claude models, including Claude Opus 4.8, without special access.
The platform links to over 60 scientific databases and provides genomics, protein-structure and chemistry toolkits.
A fact-checker AI verifies citations and calculations before output, while Anthropic offers $30,000 in credits for 50 projects, applications due July 15 2026, awards July 31 2026.

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Google Launches Gemini

Google launched “Gemini for Science” at I/O, a desktop workbench linking 30+ life-science databases and rivaling Claude Science.
OpenAI dissolved its OpenAI for Science unit in April, ending Prism while retaining GPT-Rosalind for drug discovery.
Claude Science, integrated with NVIDIA’s BioNeMo Agent Toolkit, was used by Manifold Bio to rank millions of tissue-targeting drug candidates, with computations run on its own HPC or Modal resources to keep data on-premises.

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Anthropic Launches ClaudeScience

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench that unifies computational research in the United States.
Claude Science runs existing Claude models, including Claude Opus 4.8, without special access.
The platform links to over 60 scientific databases and provides genomics, protein-structure and chemistry toolkits.
A fact-checker AI verifies citations and calculations before output, while Anthropic offers $30,000 in credits for 50 projects, applications due July 15 2026, awards July 31 2026.

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