Anthropic has partnered with scientific and government institutions to deploy Claude in research settings. In January 2026, Claude helped guide NASA's Perseverance rover to travel 400 meters across Mars — the first time an AI assistant helped navigate a spacecraft on another planet. Partnerships with major biomedical research institutions are also underway to use Claude in laboratory and computational research.

Claude's role in the NASA Mars mission was announced in January 2026, marking the first documented use of a large language model to assist with planetary rover navigation. In February 2026, Anthropic announced founding partnerships with the Allen Institute for Brain Science and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI), two of the world's leading biomedical research organizations, to develop specialized AI agents for laboratory use, computational protein design, and neural mechanisms research. Anthropic launched a dedicated Science Blog in March 2026 covering Claude's applications in scientific computing and physics. The Anthropic Economic Index and the Anthropic Institute, both launched in early 2026, study AI's broader effects on jobs, the economy, and society.