Anthropic releases Claude Science, a product aimed at researchers, the pharma industry - AIskimIQ Daily Brief - 2026-07-01

Anthropic made two major moves today, launching Claude Science for pharmaceutical and research applications while also reducing AI agent costs with the Claude Sonnet 5 rollout; meanwhile, DeepSeek open-sourced DSpark, a framework that accelerates LLM inference by up to 85%, signaling continued rapid advancement in model efficiency. China's Meituan also debuted the country's largest AI model trained on domestically produced chips, highlighting growing momentum in sovereign AI development. — Podcast voice is synthetic and episodes are produced with AI workflows.