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1 / 4Anthropic adds the NSF, the Crick and 18 others to its free-credits program for scientists×

The program

Anthropic said on October 28th that 20 foundations, institutions and research projects have joined its AI for Science program, which has given free Claude credits to hundreds of projects since May 2025.

Who joined

The funders include the US National Science Foundation, the Sloan and Simons foundations and Schmidt Sciences; the institutions include the Francis Crick Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL and the Space Telescope Science Institute; the projects include Princeton's FlyWire brain map and the Broad Institute's gnomAD.

No figure

Anthropic gave no dollar value for the credits.

Why it matters

Partners that hand out credits to their own grantees put Claude into labs Anthropic's sales team would not reach.

Sources and the full story

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Anthropic adds the NSF, the Crick and 18 others to its free-credits program for scientists

Anthropic said on October 28th that 20 foundations, institutions and research projects have joined its AI for Science program, which has given free Claude credits to hundreds of projects since May 2025. The funders include the US National Science Foundation, the Sloan and Simons foundations and Schmidt Sciences; the institutions include the Francis Crick Institute, the Wellcome Sanger Institute, EMBL and the Space Telescope Science Institute; the projects include Princeton's FlyWire brain map and the Broad Institute's gnomAD. Anthropic gave no dollar value for the credits. Partners that hand out credits to their own grantees put Claude into labs Anthropic's sales team would not reach. SourcesA

Sources

• AAI for Science expands to foundations and research institutions (Anthropic)anthropic.com

This story ran in the Afternoon Brief of November 1st 2026.