Morning Edition · Saturday, July 4, 2026
Anthropic Launches Claude Science, Betting on Workflow Over a New Model
The workbench wires generalist agents into genomics, proteomics, and cheminformatics tools, with a reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations.
Anthropic released Claude Science in beta on June 30, an AI workbench for researchers built around workflow integration rather than a new frontier model. A coordinating agent has access to more than 60 curated skills and connectors pre-conf…
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