Anthropic Signs AI Safety MOU With Australia, Offers A$3 Million in Research Credits

The Australian government launched its National AI Plan in late 2025, seeking to build independent capabilities for assessing risks from frontier models while boosting AI-driven productivity and investment. Anthropic’s participation brings AI safety, economic impact and data-center infrastructure into the partnership framework, while giving local research institutions access to Claude resources.

On April 1, 2026, Tim Ayres and Dario Amodei signed an MOU on behalf of the Australian government and Anthropic covering AI safety evaluations, Economic Index data sharing and data-center investment. Anthropic also provided A$3 million in Claude API credits to the Australian National University, the Murdoch Children’s Research Institute, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and Curtin University for rare-disease diagnosis, genetics and interdisciplinary research.