According to MIT Technology Review, Anthropic announced Claude Science on Tuesday at an event attended by pharmaceutical executives, biotech founders, and researchers. The company positioned the new product as its “newest flagship product” designed to support scientific research.
Claude Science operates similarly to Anthropic’s Claude Code product, which supports software engineering tasks. Like Claude Code, Claude Science is capable of working autonomously, though the source material does not provide specific details about its exact capabilities or functions. The announcement was made at a gathering focused on the pharmaceutical and biotechnology sectors, suggesting the product may be particularly targeted at these scientific domains.
The launch represents Anthropic’s expansion of its Claude AI assistant into specialized professional domains beyond software development, following the pattern established by Claude Code.