Originally published on AI Tech Connect.
What Anthropic actually shipped On 30 June 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Science, described as "an AI workbench for scientists" rather than a new model. That framing matters more than it sounds. Anthropic is explicit that Claude Science "is not a new AI model and not a more capable model for biology" — it runs on the same Claude models already available to every subscriber, including Claude Opus 4.8, with no special access and no gating, as confirmed in TechCrunch's coverage of the launch. What is new is the harness around the model: pre-wired database connectors, a coordinating agent that delegates to specialist sub-agents, a separate reviewer agent that checks citations and calculations, and a reproducibility layer that ships the exact code and environment behind every figure. Not a…
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