SandboxAQ, the Alphabet spinout chaired by former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, has partnered with Anthropic to embed its large quantitative models directly into Claude, making powerful drug discovery and materials science tools accessible through a natural language interface for the first time.
The company’s proprietary LQMs are physics-grounded AI models trained on real-world lab data and scientific equations rather than text patterns. They can run quantum chemistry calculations and simulate molecular dynamics — giving pharmaceutical and industrial researchers predictive insight into how candidate molecules will behave before laboratory testing begins.
Previously, accessing SandboxAQ’s models required users to provide their own computing infrastructure. The Claude integration removes that barrier, targeting computational and experimental scientists at large pharmaceutical and industrial firms whose problems have proven too complex for conventional AI tools.
Nadia Harhen, SandboxAQ’s general manager of AI simulation, described the partnership as the first time a frontier quantitative model has been made accessible via a frontier large language model in natural language. The company has raised more than $950 million to date across multiple scientific and cybersecurity business lines.
