Anthropic (ANTH.PVT) is expanding its AI offerings into the science space with its new Claude Science. Announced at the company's The Briefing: AI for Science event on Tuesday, Claude Science is designed to speed up scientific research by making it easier to access the information scientists and researchers need to perform their work.
The offering isn't a new model — it runs on Anthropic's existing AI models — but rather is what Anthropic calls a "workbench" that researchers can use to bring in data from disparate sources and work on it in one place.
Importantly, Anthropic says that the software's results are all auditable, allowing researchers to validate and rerun them.
The announcement is part of Anthropic's effort to expand its capabilities into different markets to better monetize its services.
In addition to Claude Science, Anthropic has a Claude Code coding product, Claude Cowork agentic AI platform, @Claude for accessing Claude in Slack, Claude Design, and Claude Security for cybersecurity use cases.
Anthropic's chief rival, OpenAI (OPAI.PVT), however, has also expanded into a variety of markets, including financial services, healthcare, design, and cybersecurity. And earlier this month, the company debuted its GTP-Rosalind model for scientific research.
Both companies are racing to drive new revenue streams ahead of their planned initial public offerings. Anthropic filed its confidential IPO paperwork with the Securities and Exchange Commission on June 1, followed by OpenAI, which filed on June 8.
Anthropic is on track to go public at some point later this year, and while OpenAI was initially expected to do the same, the New York Times has reported that the company could delay its debut on the public markets until 2027.
Although OpenAI jumped out to an early lead in the AI wars, Anthropic has caught up and, in some instances, surpassed its archnemesis.
In March, OpenAI said it had a post-money valuation of $852 billion. Anthropic, however, was last valued at $965 billion. But Anthropic is also navigating a rocky relationship with the Trump administration. The Pentagon has labeled the company a supply chain threat after it refused to allow the Department of Defense to use its AI models for the mass surveillance of Americans or fully autonomous weapons.
And on June 12, Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick issued an order banning Anthropic from allowing foreign nationals inside and outside the US to use the company's powerful Mythos 5 and Fable 5 AI models due to cybersecurity concerns.