# Anthropic Commits $150 Million to U.S. Genesis Mission

By John Kim

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Published: 2026-10-09T16:53:03.000Z
Updated: 2026-10-09T16:53:03.000Z
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> The three-year commitment will provide Claude tools, API access and technical support to more than 15 federal agencies, including NASA, NIH and NSF.

Anthropic has committed $150 million over three years to expand access to its artificial intelligence tools across more than 15 federal agencies participating in the U.S. government’s Genesis Mission.

The commitment includes Claude, Claude Code and application programming interface access for hundreds of research projects. Participating scientists and agencies will also receive training and technical support.

The agencies include NASA, the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the National Science Foundation (NSF). The support will help participating institutions begin their first projects, with work focused on government priorities such as fusion energy and quantum computing.

The Genesis Mission is a federal program launched under the Trump administration to use artificial intelligence to accelerate scientific and technological discovery. Anthropic announced its cooperation with the U.S. Department of Energy in December 2025 and has since brought Claude to national laboratories.

The commitment expands on Anthropic’s earlier Genesis Mission announcement, while the company’s broader research efforts have also included Claude Science, an artificial intelligence workspace built around tools used in scientific research. Anthropic has made 10,000 free or discounted Claude seats available to academic scientists and expanded its AI for Science program.

Claude Science was used to produce a complete ultraviolet map of the sky in a project led by Johns Hopkins University astrophysicist Brice Ménard, who is also an Anthropic researcher.

Ultraviolet light must be observed from space because Earth’s ozone layer absorbs it. NASA’s GALEX mission observed about two-thirds of the sky in roughly 38,000 observations between 2003 and 2013, while avoiding areas with dense concentrations of bright stars to protect its detector.

Claude’s agents searched for and downloaded public ultraviolet survey data, calibrated the observations and combined them using a common coordinate system. For the roughly one-third of the sky without ultraviolet observations, the system estimated values using relationships between ultraviolet brightness and visible, infrared and radio data.

Tests that concealed known regions produced errors of about 10% or less. The final map also included estimated ultraviolet brightness for more than 100 million stars using data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia satellite.

The project required human review after Ménard found circular brightness patterns caused by atmospheric glow that had not been fully removed from some GALEX observations. The issue had passed two rounds of review by other AI agents before the problem was identified and all 38,000 observations were reprocessed over several hours.

The map went through more than 10 versions, with each pixel labeled as measured or estimated and assigned an uncertainty estimate.