Anthropic Guest Investigators Program Gives Academics Internal Claude Access and Full Data Rights

Anthropic's new Guest Investigators program offers academic, nonprofit and government researchers 8-to-12-week embedded collaborations with access to unreleased Claude models and internal research harnesses. Anthropic covers model-compute costs, and researchers retain full rights to their data and follow-on research. Applications are open for about 14 days from October 22, 2026.

• Open to academic institutions, nonprofits and government labs, but not private companies
• Researchers use Anthropic models and harnesses unavailable in any commercial release
• Anthropic covers all model-compute costs for selected projects
• Researchers keep data rights and the right to publish follow-on work