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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.
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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.
Products affected
Claude APIClaude for research partnershipsClaude Enterprise
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Other practices by Anthropic
OtherAnthropic developed a specialized AI model called Claude Mythos to help find dangerous security flaws in software before malicious actors do. Because the model is powerful enough to create its own exploits, it is not available to the public — access is restricted to approximately 40 vetted organizations, including major technology and financial companies, for defensive use only.OtherAnthropic operates a formal safety framework called the Responsible Scaling Policy that sets rules for when and how it can train and release more powerful AI models. Under this policy, each new Claude model is assigned a safety level, and passing specific safety tests is required before the model can be deployed. The framework is now in its third version and has been updated as Claude's capabilities have grown.OtherAnthropic created and open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a technical standard that gives AI models a consistent way to connect to external tools, databases, and applications — similar to how USB-C gives devices a universal port for charging and data transfer. MCP has been adopted by major technology companies including Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI, and reaches over 100 million monthly downloads.
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