Anthropic Launches an AI Chatbot Plan For Colleges and Universities (techcrunch.com)
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- News link: https://news.slashdot.org/story/25/04/02/232215/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-plan-for-colleges-and-universities
- Source link: https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-tier-for-colleges-and-universities/
> Anthropic announced on Wednesday that it's [1]launching a new Claude for Education tier , an answer to OpenAI's ChatGPT Edu plan. The new tier is aimed at higher education, and gives students, faculty, and other staff access to Anthropic's AI chatbot, Claude, with a few additional capabilities. One piece of Claude for Education is "Learning Mode," a new feature within [2]Claude Projects to help students develop their own critical thinking skills, rather than simply obtain answers to questions. With Learning Mode enabled, Claude will ask questions to test understanding, highlight fundamental principles behind specific problems, and provide potentially useful templates for research papers, outlines, and study guides.
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> Anthropic says Claude for Education comes with its standard chat interface, as well as "enterprise-grade" security and privacy controls. In a press release shared with TechCrunch ahead of launch, Anthropic said university administrators can use Claude to analyze enrollment trends and automate repetitive email responses to common inquiries. Meanwhile, students can use Claude for Education in their studies, the company suggested, such as working through calculus problems with step-by-step guidance from the AI chatbot. To help universities integrate Claude into their systems, Anthropic says it's partnering with the company Instructure, which offers the popular education software platform Canvas. The AI startup is also teaming up with Internet2, a nonprofit organization that delivers cloud solutions for colleges.
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> Anthropic says that it 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 is a design partner -- Anthropic says it's working with the institution's students, faculty, and staff to build best practices for AI integration, AI-powered education tools, and frameworks. Anthropic hopes to strike more of these contracts, in part through new student ambassador and AI "builder" programs, to capitalize on the growing number of students using AI in their studies.
[1] https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/02/anthropic-launches-an-ai-chatbot-tier-for-colleges-and-universities/
[2] https://www.anthropic.com/news/projects
Ha! Fools. (Score:2)
Every school is grappling with the epidemic of students using AI to do the work for them. Only a school run by fools would employ AI to do work for them while telling students to not use AI to do the work for them. I suppose we'll be finding out which schools truly are run by fools.
Well, that's funny (Score:2)
> a new feature [...] to help students develop their own critical thinking skills,
It's been quite firmly established that the "AI" does exactly the opposite, by making cheating easy again, it produces "students" that are lazier, dumber and more prone dispense with thinking at all.
Shit's gone to opposite world.
Shifting gears (Score:2)
So Anthropic has decided the peak has passed and it is time to go parasitic. Deals like this to lamprey-on to a "must have" software package are going to be gold for them - there's no natural moat for LLMs so being a non-optional bundle component is probably one of the few attractive paths they have.
Of course when the customers are not the end users, the product always trends towards shit. In this context, that just means free money - people who want LLMs will pay for a tool they like, and everyone gets t
"We were selling...their fat assess back to them" (Score:2)
--Fight Club
Like Catholicism (Score:2)
Get them early, and they won't go anywhere.