Anthropic ships Claude Science Workbench and an internal drug-discovery program
Anthropic·high signal
On July 5–6 Anthropic launched Claude Science, a research workbench wiring Claude Opus 4.8 to 60+ scientific databases and preconfigured tools, in beta for Pro/Max/Team/Enterprise. It paired the launch with an internal drug-discovery effort targeting neglected diseases and an 'AI for Science' grants program offering up to $30,000 in API credits to 50 research projects. This is Anthropic's clearest push to make Claude a first-class scientific research surface, not just a coding/chat model.