Anthropic Fast-Tracks Next Generation of Coders Into Claude Ecosystem

Anthropic has formed a partnership that will make its artificial intelligence (AI) tools Claude and Claude Code available to 20,000 college students.

The AI startup is collaborating with CodePath, a provider of collegiate computer science training, to integrate Claude into CodePath’s courses and redesign the organization’s coding curriculum to reflect how AI is reshaping software development, Anthropic said in a Friday (Feb. 13) press release.

CodePath aims to improve access to industry-vetted courses and career networks for its students, 40% of whom come from families earning less than $50,000 a year, according to the release.

“Partnering with Anthropic means our students learn to build with Claude from day one, at institutions that have historically been overlooked,” CodePath Co-founder and CEO Michael Ellison said in the release. “This results in better outcomes for our students and a fundamentally different answer to who gets to shape the AI economy.”

Anthropic said in its release: “The tools changing how software is built shouldn’t only be available to students at well-resourced universities. With CodePath, they won’t be.”

PYMNTS reported in June that AI coding assistants enable smaller teams to do tasks that would otherwise cost a lot more, as well as cutting development time for businesses to bring products to market faster. Based on large language models, these tools generate code, fix bugs and perform other tasks.

The ability of AI coding tools to enable faster and cheaper software development also drove a selloff of software shares that impacted the world’s largest software businesses.

When Anthropic announced Thursday (Feb. 12) that it raised $30 billion in a Series G funding round that valued the company at $380 billion, it attributed the investors’ interest in part to the company’s strength in enterprise AI and coding.

The firm said its agentic coding tool Claude Code was made available to the general public in May and now has run-rate revenue of $2.5 billion. It added that it will use the new funding to support continued frontier research, product development and infrastructure expansions.

Rival AI startup OpenAI included its coding assistant, Codex, in a Super Bowl ad, together with the company’s other tools for creativity and productivity.

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