Anthropic's Claude Science Wants to Be the Operating System for the AI Lab

Anthropic just made a move that sounds modest but reveals a much bigger shift: it released Claude Science, and it’s not a model. It’s a workbench. In a field obsessed with benchmark scores and parameter counts, the company behind Claude is essentially saying the smartest AI in the world is useless if a scientist needs twelve tabs, three logins, and a prayer to get anything done.

The Big Idea

Claude Science is a public beta “app, not a model,” as Anthropic’s own FAQ puts it, according to...