IBL News | New York
Anthropic launched a specialized version of Claude tailored for higher education institutions this week to answer OpenAI’s ChatGPT Edu plan.
The Claude for Education initiative seeks to equip universities with AI-enabled approaches to teaching, learning, and administration.
With this program, Anthropic is trying to boost its revenue in the university space, where it competes with OpenAI. The company already reportedly brings in $115 million a month.
Claude for Education includes what Anthropic calls a Learning mode. This mode is based on guiding students’ reasoning process rather than providing answers, helping them develop critical thinking skills. This feature works within Projects and saved conversations, where students can organize their work around specific assignments or topics.
The solution will be embedded into CanvasLMS and extended with a program called Claude Campus Ambassadors, which will offer API credits for students who build projects.
Anthropic said it collaborates with Northeastern University, the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), and Champlain College.
The AI start-up summarized its offer in these terms:
- “Students can draft literature reviews with proper citations, work through calculus problems with step-by-step guidance, and get feedback on thesis statements before final submission.
- Faculty can create rubrics aligned to specific learning outcomes, provide individualized feedback on student essays efficiently, and generate chemistry equations with varying difficulty levels.
- Administrative staff can analyze enrollment trends across departments, automate repetitive email responses to common inquiries, and convert dense policy documents into accessible FAQ formats—all from a familiar chat interface with enterprise-grade security and privacy controls.”
