Digital Hollywood University Adopts Anthropic's Claude Campus-Wide
The deal shows a Japanese university tying its teaching and administrative stack to a single outside AI vendor, with the president's own coding of the school's core platform as the entering wedge.
Reporting from 1 source: ASCII.jp.
Digital Hollywood University said on October 14 that Anthropic's Claude will be available to all students and faculty starting in November, with free use through university accounts and a usage quota for production and research. The rollout extends the university's all-university AI infrastructure, which began in September and links to its Campus Portal platform. President Naotaka Fujii developed Campus Portal himself using Claude Code.
Fujii has continued fixing bugs on Campus Portal after it went live, and he wrote on X that Anthropic noticed because the university's president was coding the system himself. Under the arrangement, Claude is meant to cover game, video, and web production, programming, research, paper writing, and administrative work.
The university also plans to revise assignment design and grading on the premise that students use AI, alongside rules for copyright and personal information. The rollout is the first all-university adoption of Claude at a Japanese institution, according to the announcement.
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