Key Points
- Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, on June 30.
- It is in beta for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users.
- A coordinating agent draws on 60-plus skills across genomics, proteomics and more.
- A reviewer agent checks citations and calculations for errors.
Anthropic released Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists, in beta on June 30, the company said. It is available to Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise users on macOS and Linux.
The product centers on a generalist coordinating agent with access to more than 60 curated skills and connectors pre-configured for genomics, single-cell analysis, proteomics, structural biology, and cheminformatics, alongside a separate reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations and flags errors. Anthropic is also funding up to 50 "AI for Science" projects with up to $30,000 in credits each.
The bet is workflow, not weights. Rather than a science-specific model, Claude Science wraps the existing Claude in the tools, connectors, and audit trail a lab actually needs. It is Anthropic's move to turn CEO Dario Amodei's stated belief that AI can compress decades of biomedical progress into a product researchers and pharma can buy — and another enterprise wedge for a company whose $965 billion valuation rests on selling work, not chat. It also extends the public-good framing behind efforts like its $150 million Claude Corps, as the company moves toward the public markets.
Source: Anthropic.
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