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Anthropic

Anthropic is an American AI safety-focused public-benefit corporation that develops the Claude family of large language models.

Anthropic was founded in San Francisco in 2021 by siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, both former OpenAI executives, along with several other former OpenAI researchers including Tom Brown, Jack Clark, Chris Olah, Sam McCandlish and Jared Kaplan. It was established as a public-benefit corporation with a stated mission to research and deploy frontier AI systems safely. Anthropic's flagship product is the Claude family of large language models, first released in 2023, alongside developer tools such as the Claude API and Claude Code, distributed partly through partnerships with Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud, both of which are also major investors. The company has raised large funding rounds from Google, Amazon and other investors, reaching a reported valuation of roughly $965 billion by May 2026, making it one of the most valuable privately held AI companies. In June 2026 Anthropic confidentially filed paperwork with the SEC as an early step toward a possible public listing. Anthropic positions itself as a safety-focused counterweight to faster-moving competitors like OpenAI, publishing extensive AI safety research and pursuing constitutional AI methods, while expanding its executive team, including CTO Rahul Patil and CPO Ami Vora, who joined in late 2025.

Founded
2021
Headquarters
San Francisco, United States
Sector
lab

Key people

  • Dario Amodei — Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer
  • Daniela Amodei — Co-Founder and President
  • Jared Kaplan — Co-Founder and Chief Science Officer
  • Tom Brown — Co-Founder and Chief Compute Officer
  • Jack Clark — Co-Founder and Head of Public Benefit

Tools

  • Claude Code

    Claude Code is an AI coding agent that works in terminals, IDEs, Slack, and the web to plan, write, test, and review code.

  • Claude AI

    Claude is Anthropic’s AI assistant for writing, research, coding, analysis, file creation, and task automation.

Model Tracker

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