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Anthropic

We're an AI research company that builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. Our first product is Claude, an AI assistant for tasks at any scale.

Our research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

Sector
Artificial intelligence
Business model
B2B SaaS / API
Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, US
Offices
San Francisco, California
Latest round
Series H at US$965B valuation (May 2026)

Sources: en.wikipedia.org

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The team on Day One

Hear from the team

Milestones

  1. Jan 2021 Founded by ex-OpenAI researchers led by the Amodeis en.wikipedia.org
  2. Mar 2023 Released Claude and Claude Instant en.wikipedia.org
  3. Sept 2023 Amazon committed up to US$4B investment en.wikipedia.org
  4. Mar 2024 Launched Claude 3 model family en.wikipedia.org

What others say about Anthropic

Moments from other conversations on the network where Anthropic comes up.

in a world where some other company using OpenAI or Anthropic models does something similar, I think it's going to be very hard to attribute who's actually at fault and who's responsible.”
Benjamin PlummerCo-founder & CEO, Dragonfly In The Blink Of AI · Benjamin Plummer (Dragonfly Intelligence… · 8:29 ▶
somebody shared the like pull request that Anthropic recently acquired Bun.”
Blair HudsonChief Engineer, Generative AI, Commonwealth Bank In The Blink Of AI · Building AI at Scale: Inside Australia's… · 17:46 ▶
it was this incredible piece of research that I think Anthropic released where they were kind of looking at the neural network and how the model lights up.”
On First Cheque From Firefox to AI: Mozilla’s Fight for… · 40:35 ▶
OpenAI, Anthropic, and other frontier labs will begin moving up the stack, increasingly shifting their strategic focus to building applications.”
Georgie HealyHost, In The Blink Of AI In The Blink Of AI · Forbes vs. Alex: AI Predictions That Hit… · 27:18 ▶

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