Anthropic

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. The company is headquartered in San Francisco and focuses on developing AI systems that are safe, beneficial, and understandable.

The company's primary product is Claude, a large language model and AI assistant designed with constitutional AI principles to be helpful, harmless, and honest. Claude is available through direct chat interfaces and API access, serving enterprise customers and individual users. Anthropic has positioned itself as a research-focused alternative to other AI companies, emphasizing safety and alignment research.

Anthropic has raised significant funding, including a $4 billion investment commitment from Amazon announced in September 2023, bringing total funding to over $7 billion. The company employs several hundred people and has established partnerships with major cloud providers. Google also invested $300 million in the company in 2022, with Amazon's investment representing one of the largest AI investments to date.