Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities

Anthropic has launched a new tier called Claude for Education, aimed at higher education institutions, to provide students, faculty, and staff with access to its AI chatbot, Claude. This tier includes a feature called Learning Mode, which helps students develop critical thinking skills by asking questions, highlighting fundamental principles, and providing templates for research papers and study guides. Claude for Education comes with a standard chat interface and enterprise-grade security and privacy controls. University administrators can use Claude to analyze enrollment trends and automate email responses to common inquiries. Students can use Claude for Education to work through problems with step-by-step guidance from the AI chatbot. Anthropic is partnering with Instructure, the company behind the education software platform Canvas, to help universities integrate Claude into their systems. The company is also teaming up with Internet2, a nonprofit organization that delivers cloud solutions for colleges. Anthropic has already struck full campus agreements with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics and Political Science, and Champlain College to make Claude for Education available to all students. Northeastern University is a design partner, working with Anthropic to build best practices for AI integration and AI-powered education tools. Anthropic hopes to strike more contracts through new student ambassador and AI builder programs, capitalizing on the growing number of students using AI in their studies.