Anthropic
Location
San Francisco
Founded
2021
Invested
2024
Category
AI
Anthropic is at the forefront of building safe, high-performance AI systems with real commercial and societal impact. Their unique Constitutional AI framework, tier-one talent, and strategic partnerships with Amazon, Google, and Apple position them to be a long-term category leader in foundation models. We believe their focus on alignment, scale, and enterprise integration will make them one of the most durable and influential AI companies of this decade.
Anthropic is a leading AI research and development company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives, including Dario and Daniela Amodei. Operating as a public-benefit corporation, Anthropic is focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems with a strong commitment to safety and alignment. Their flagship family of models, Claude, has evolved through several versions, with Claude 3 and Claude 4 delivering state-of-the-art performance across reasoning, coding, and language tasks. These models are built using Anthropic’s proprietary “Constitutional AI” approach, which embeds ethical guardrails into the models’ behavior, promoting transparency and trust in their outputs.
Anthropic is backed by major strategic investors including Amazon, Google, and Salesforce, with total funding commitments in the billions. Their Claude models are integrated into enterprise platforms like AWS Bedrock and are being considered by Apple for powering next-generation AI assistants. The company also plays a central role in shaping industry standards, having introduced the Model Context Protocol (MCP) to help AI models securely interact with external tools. With a strong focus on responsible deployment, regulatory leadership, and practical use cases, Anthropic is positioning itself as one of the most influential forces in the development of safe, advanced AI technologies.