Exclusive: Anthropic announces partnerships with Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as it bets AI can make science more efficient

Ever since Google DeepMind’s AlphaFold cracked the half-century-old protein-folding problem in 2021, AI’s role in science has usually been characterized in terms of the quest for similar big breakthroughs—proof that machines could solve problems humans could not. Anthropic, however, is pushing a different idea: that AI agents may matter more in the unglamorous work between discoveries. 

In exclusive interviews announcing new partnerships with the Allen Institute and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute...