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Anthropic announced that it is making 10,000 free or discounted seats available to scientists worldwide for one year, while expanding its program offering computing credits of up to $50,000 per project. Access to the subsidized plan requires verification of principal investigator status, while some life sciences uses remain subject to dual-use risk restrictions.
Anthropic launched the Life Sciences Verification Program in a pilot format, giving life sciences teams and institutions more flexible access to the Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models for tasks such as drug discovery and biological research. The program relies on pre-verification and external monitoring of usage instead of immediately blocking certain requests, while retaining data associated with observed activity for 30 days.