Anthropic places a flagship bet on AI for science

At the end of June, Anthropic launched Claude Science, a standalone product designed to support scientific research in the same way Claude Code supports software engineering. As MIT Technology Review reports, the platform allows researchers to run complex life sciences workflows through natural language, with direct integration into high-performance computing environments. Anthropic is also using the tool to pursue its own research into drug candidates for neglected diseases, positioning itself to take up the scientific mantle that Google DeepMind has held for the past decade. For us, the question is not whether AI accelerates drug discovery. It already does. It is which organisations build the workflows and proprietary data layers that turn that acceleration into a durable competitive position.