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Anthropic's AI for Science Program gives researchers Claude API credits rather than money, and the distinction determines whether it is useful to you: it removes the inference-cost barrier for projects that want to run large-scale LLM analysis, but funds no personnel, equipment or overhead. The award is up to 20,000 US dollars in API credits over a six-month window.
The programme began with a focus on biology and life sciences, and that emphasis persists in the selection criteria, but eligible fields now span chemistry, medicine and healthcare, environmental science, physics, computer science, earth sciences and other areas with significant scientific impact potential - the August 2026 expansion explicitly widened the programme beyond the biological sciences.
The review cadence is the most practical thing to know: applications are evaluated on the first Monday of each month, on a rolling basis with no annual deadline, and unsuccessful submissions do not receive individual responses.
Evaluation weighs scientific merit, team credentials, potential impact, technical feasibility and a biosecurity screen, the last of which is a genuine filter for life-sciences proposals touching dual-use territory.
Several restrictions are worth reading before applying: credits cover API use only and not the Claude consumer application, recipients do not gain access to non-standard or experimental models, and there is no exemption from the Usage Policy for red-teaming or jailbreaking research - safety researchers who need to probe model boundaries should not assume this programme grants that latitude.
Alongside the credit programme, Anthropic opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude Team seats for scientists in August 2026, standard seats free and premium seats at 15 dollars per month with pricing fixed for a year, which is a separate and lower-barrier route to access.
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Or search similar grants →According to the current listing, eligibility includes: Applicants must be researchers affiliated with a research institution, and the programme is directed at academic and nonprofit research organisations. Registration requires completing a verification form, and applicants are expected to be a principal investigator or equivalent at an academic or nonprofit research institution. Proposals are evaluated against scientific merit, team credentials, potential impact, technical feasibility, and a biosecurity screening - the last is applied seriously to life-sciences work with dual-use potential. Awards are up to 20,000 US dollars in Claude API credits for a six-month period; no cash is provided and credits cannot be converted to salary, equipment or indirect costs. Credits apply to API usage only and do not cover the Claude web application. Recipients do not receive access to non-standard or experimental models. All use remains subject to Anthropic's Usage Policy, and the programme grants no exemption for red-teaming or jailbreaking research - standard enforcement procedures apply to policy violations, which is a material constraint for AI safety and adversarial robustness projects. Eligible fields include biology and life sciences (the original and still-emphasised focus), chemistry, medicine and healthcare, environmental science, physics, computer science, earth sciences and other domains with significant scientific impact potential. There is no fixed deadline: applications are reviewed on the first Monday of each month on a rolling basis, and applicants whose submissions are not approved do not receive individual responses. Reported credit ceilings vary between Anthropic's support documentation (20,000 dollars) and August 2026 press coverage (30,000 to 50,000 dollars), so confirm the current award size, eligible fields and application form directly with Anthropic before applying. Confirm the full requirements in the official notice before applying.
The current listing shows no cash is awarded. The published award is up to 20,000 US dollars in Claude API credits per project for a six-month period, so amount_min is set to 0 (there is no published floor and smaller allocations are made) and amount_max to 20,000. Note a discrepancy worth resolving before planning: Anthropic's official support documentation states up to 20,000 dollars in credits over six months, while August 2026 press coverage of the programme's expansion beyond the biological sciences reports figures of up to 30,000 and up to 50,000 dollars in credits per project, in some cases paired with up to 2,000 dollars of additional compute from Modal for selected recipients. The 20,000 figure recorded here is the one on Anthropic's own support page. Credits are restricted to API usage and cannot be spent on the Claude web application, on salaries, or on anything else. Separately from the credit programme, Anthropic opened 10,000 free and discounted Claude Team seats for scientists in August 2026, with standard seats free and premium seats at 15 US dollars per month with pricing fixed for one year. Verify award ceilings, matching requirements, and allowable costs in the official notice.
Anthropic AI for Science Program Providing Free Claude API Credits to Academic and Nonprofit Researchers is funded by Anthropic. Verify program details on the funder's official page before applying.
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The Meta Research PhD Fellowship supports doctoral students conducting research in areas central to Meta's technical agenda, with several of its annual award tracks dedicated to artificial intelligence and machine learning. Current AI-relevant tracks include AI System Hardware/Software Co-Design (high-performance AI algorithms spanning model compression, numerical optimization, benchmarking, and distributed inference and training), Applied Statistics (bias and variance estimation and correction in models and datasets, uncertainty quantification), AR/VR Human Understanding (efficient ML techniques that run on AR/VR devices), and Programming Languages (program synthesis, probabilistic and differentiable programming). Recipients receive two years of paid tuition and fees, a $42,000 annual stipend covering living expenses and conference travel, and a paid visit to Meta headquarters for the annual Fellowship Summit; the award carries no intellectual property claim on the student's research. The 2027 cycle opened August 3, 2026 with applications closing September 20, 2026, reference letters due in October 2026, and winners notified in January 2027.
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