Anthropic is an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei. The company develops the Claude family of large language models, positioning safety research and interpretability as core to its product development rather than a secondary consideration. Anthropic operates as a public-benefit corporation, a structure intended to formally balance commercial objectives against its stated mission of ensuring AI systems remain safe and steerable as capability increases.
Claude is available through a consumer application, a developer API, and enterprise offerings, and is also distributed through partnerships with major cloud providers. Anthropic has raised substantial funding from investors including Google and Amazon, both of which are also significant cloud infrastructure partners for the company's model training and deployment.