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Bristol Myers to deploy Anthropic's Claude AI model to speed up drug discovery

May 20, 2026 7:48 AM EDT

A sign stands outside a Bristol Myers Squibb facility in Cambridge, Massachusetts, U.S., May 20, 2021. REUTERS/Brian Snyder

May 20 (Reuters) - Bristol ‌Myers Squibb ​said ​on Wednesday it is partnering with Anthropic to make its Claude ‌AI model available to over 30,000 employees ⁠in an effort to accelerate the discovery, development ‌and delivery of new ‌medicines.

• Bristol said it will also leverage Claude Code, Anthropic's coding tool, and evaluate ​its use in research, drug development, manufacturing and other commercial and medical ⁠affairs.

• Drugmakers have announced a slew of deals for tools ​to unleash the promise of artificial intelligence.

• Many, including drugmaker Eli Lilly, which ​has partnered with leading ‌chipmaker Nvidia, are betting AI can also improve the success rate ⁠of new drugs.

• "Most enterprise AI stops at the chatbot. The real prize is the untapped ⁠value still trapped behind decades of data silos, and ​this collaboration is how we reach it," said Greg Meyers, chief digital and technology officer at Bristol ‌Myers.

• Agentic AI, which requires little human intervention, could increase clinical ‌development productivity by about 35% to 45% ⁠over the next ‌five years, consultancy ​McKinsey said last year.

(Reporting by Christy Santhosh in Bengaluru; Editing by Sahal ‌Muhammed)



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