Anthropic’s Claude for Enterprise expands deployment at Lawrence Livermore

Anthropic’s leading enterprise-focused large language model will now be available for the entirety of Livermore Lawrence National Laboratory, where it will be deployed to focus on scientific research in disciplines like nuclear deterrence, energy, materials science, high-performance computing, climate science and more.

Announced on Wednesday, the expanded partnership between LLNL and Anthropic hinges on the usage of Claude for Enterprise –– a variation of Anthropic’s chatbot Claude tailored to organizations aiming to bring automation to their workflows –– that will now be handling complex research by scientists at LLNL. 

Those scientists will now be able to leverage Claude to digest large, complex datasets, generate hypotheses and support research in new government research fields, among other tasks.

“We're honored to support LLNL's mission of making the world a safer place through science and technology,” said Thiyagu Ramasamy, Anthropic’s head of public sector, in a press release. “This partnership shows what's possible when Anthropic’s cutting-edge AI meets world-class scientific expertise.”

Anthropic unveiled its deepened partnership with LLNL amid an effort to break into the federal contracting space. In June, the company released its new Claude for Government model designed to modernize and expedite government workflows, further amplifying Anthropic’s presence in D.C.

LLNL has joined other national labs in exploring the benefits AI and machine learning can have on scientific discovery. LLNL hosted an event in April with OpenAI and Anthropic to introduce ChatGPT and Claude’s capabilities to the federal scientific community.

“LLNL has always been at the cutting edge of computational science,” Greg Herweg, the chief technology officer at LLNL, said. “This expanded partnership demonstrates how frontier AI can amplify the capabilities of world-class researchers working on some of humanity's most pressing challenges.”