Anthropic launches Claude Science, an AI workbench for the lab

Anthropic has launched Claude Science, an app that pulls a researcher’s scattered tools into one place and lets AI agents run large parts of the work. It is the company’s biggest push yet into the lab.

Anthropic said on June 30, 2026 that Claude Science is now available in beta. The company calls it an AI workbench for scientists. It pulls together the databases, code tools, and compute that researchers juggle every day. An AI agent then moves between them.

The pitch targets a real complaint. Scientists work across dozens of databases, each with its own schema. They switch between PubMed, Jupyter, R, and a cluster terminal, and they wrangle file formats that need custom pipelines. Claude Science folds those steps into one environment. It can analyse the literature, run multistep analysis, and refine figures and manuscripts until they are ready to publish.

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