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August 29, 2026

Claude offers free access to scientists

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Claude offers free access to scientists.; Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code ,…… FatherPhi shared: Did we take it too far?

Claude

Expanded summary · Claude

The company is offering 10,000 free or discounted subscriptions to scientists to help with their research.

Anthropic is opening up 10,000 spots for scientists around the world to get free or cheaper access to Claude for one year. The program aims to help researchers use AI for their work, expanding beyond its initial focus on biology.

As Claude becomes increasingly capable at scientific research, we are focusing on building products and programs to support the research community.

In June, we launched Claude Science, a product that integrates the tools that…

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Perplexity

Expanded summary · Perplexity

Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code , Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

Grok 4.3 and the Grok 4.20 family — xai/grok-4.3, xai/grok-4.20-non-reasoning, and xai/grok-4.20-multi-agent.

Smart media selection: Intelligently chooses between images, videos, or both based on query type Kimi K2.7 Code — perplexity/kimi-k2.7-code, Moonshot AI’s coding and agentic model.

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FatherPhi

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Did we take it too far?

FatherPhi tests out what happens when you... have a few drinks with ChatGPT.

Things get a little weird.

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