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Anthropic

Organization

Also known as: Anthropic PBC, Anthropic AI

Revenue
$19 billion
as of Mar 2026
Valuation
$380 billion
as of Feb 2026
Headcount
4,074
as of Jan 2026
Total Funding Raised
$67 billion
as of Feb 2026
Enterprise Market Share
32%
as of Jul 2025
Founded Date
Jan 2021

Key People

15
DA
CEO
Jan 2021 – present
DA
President
Jan 2021 – present
CO
Chris OlahFounder
Research Lead, Mechanistic Interpretability
Jan 2021 – present
TB
Tom BrownFounder
Co-founder
Jan 2021 – present
GPT-3 lead author
JC
Jack ClarkFounder
Co-founder, Head of Policy
Jan 2021 – present
Former Policy Director at OpenAI
JK
Jared KaplanFounder
Co-founder, Chief Science Officer
Jan 2021 – present
Scaling laws pioneer; Johns Hopkins physicist
SM
Sam McCandlishFounder
Co-founder, Chief Architect
Jan 2021 – present
Originally CTO, transitioned to Chief Architect Oct 2025
JL
Head of Alignment Science
May 2024 – present
Joined after resigning from OpenAI where he co-led Superalignment team
KR
Krishna Rao
Chief Financial Officer
May 2024 – present
Anthropic's first CFO
MK
Mike Krieger
Chief Product Officer
May 2024 – Aug 2025
Co-founder of Instagram; departed CPO role to lead Anthropic Labs
RP
Rahul Patil
Chief Technology Officer
Oct 2025 – present
Former CTO of Stripe
HK
Member of Technical Staff
Jan 2025 – present
Works on responsible scaling policy; co-founder of GiveWell
CC
Chris Ciauri
Managing Director, International
Sep 2025 – present
Former Google/Salesforce executive; leads international expansion
JS
John Schulman
Research Scientist
Aug 2024 – present
OpenAI co-founder; inventor of PPO reinforcement learning algorithm
MS
Mrinank Sharma
Head of Safeguards Research
Jan 2023 – Feb 2026
Resigned Feb 2026 citing ethical concerns about AI safety practices

Funding History

17
Series GequityFeb 2026
$30.0Bat $380.0B valuationLed by gic
Led by GIC and Coatue; co-leads D.E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, MGX. Second-largest venture deal ever. ARR ~$14B.
reuters.com
Microsoft/Nvidia Partnershipstrategic-partnershipNov 2025
$15.0B
Microsoft up to $5B equity + Nvidia up to $10B equity. Tied to $30B Azure compute purchase and 1GW Nvidia compute commitment. Makes Claude available on all 3 major clouds. Valuation ~$350B.
blogs.microsoft.com
Series FequitySep 2025
$13.0Bat $183.0B valuationLed by iconiq
Led by ICONIQ, Fidelity, Lightspeed. ARR had reached $4B. ~7.1% dilution.
anthropic.com
Series EequityMar 2025
$3.5Bat $61.5B valuationLed by lightspeed
Led by Lightspeed Venture Partners. ~5.7% dilution.
anthropic.com
Google AdditionalequityJan 2025
$1.0BLed by google
Brings total Google equity investment to ~$3.3B; current stake ~14%
cnbc.com
Amazon Third Trancheconvertible-noteNov 2024
$4.0BLed by amazon
Brings total Amazon investment to $8B. Convertible notes.
cnbc.com
Amazon Second Trancheconvertible-noteMar 2024
$2.8BLed by amazon
Completing initial $4B commitment. Convertible notes; partially converted to equity in Q1 2025.
aboutamazon.com
Menlo Round (Series D)equityFeb 2024
$750Mat $18.4B valuationLed by menlo-ventures
Led by Menlo Ventures. Talks reported Dec 2023; closed Feb 2024. ~4.1% dilution.
fortune.com
Google Follow-onequityOct 2023
$2.0BLed by google
Part of up-to-$2B commitment; board observer seat. Largest single Google tranche.
blog.google
Amazon Initialconvertible-noteSep 2023
$1.3BLed by amazon
First tranche of up-to-$4B commitment. Convertible note structure; equity capped at <33%. AWS becomes primary cloud and training partner.
press.aboutamazon.com
Bridge RoundequityMay 2023
$450Mat $4.1B valuation
Led by Spark Capital
fortune.com
Google InitialequityFeb 2023
$300MLed by google
Initial Google investment for ~10% stake. Reported February 2023. Included Google Cloud partnership.
news.crunchbase.com
Series BequityApr 2022
$580Mat $4.0B valuationLed by spark-capital
Led by Spark Capital. ~14.5% dilution.
fortune.com
FTX InvestmentequityApr 2022
$500MLed by FTX
FTX/SBF's portion of the $580M Series B. Listed separately because FTX held the shares directly (~8% stake) and they were later sold in bankruptcy for ~$884M to 24 institutional investors (Jane Street, Fidelity, etc.).
cnbc.com
Series AequityMay 2021
$124Mat $550M valuationLed by Jaan Tallinn
Jaan Tallinn led, Dustin Moskovitz and Eric Schmidt participated. ~22.5% dilution ($124M / $550M post-money).
techcrunch.com
FoundingfoundingJan 2021
Company incorporation; initial equity allocation to 7 co-founders. ~60-70% total equity to founders pre-dilution.
SeedequityJan 2021
Led by Tallinn, Moskovitz, Eric Schmidt
Seed round; amount undisclosed (estimated $10-30M based on typical AI startup seeds of this era). Seed investors named in Series A announcement.
anthropic.com

Model Releases

11
Feb 2026
Claude Opus 4.6ASL-3
Agent teams, PowerPoint generation; flagship model
Feb 2026
Claude Sonnet 4.6ASL-2
Same pricing as Sonnet 4.5; default for free and Pro users
Nov 2025
Claude Opus 4.5ASL-3
80.9% SWE-bench Verified — first model above 80%; 42% enterprise coding share
Oct 2025
Claude Haiku 4.5ASL-2
Smallest model in 4.5 family
Sep 2025
Claude Sonnet 4.5ASL-2
Mid-generation refresh
May 2025
Claude 4 (Opus 4, Sonnet 4)ASL-3 (Opus), ASL-2 (Sonnet)
Opus 4 was first model under ASL-3; improved coding capabilities
Oct 2024
Claude 3.5 Sonnet v2 + 3.5 HaikuASL-2
Updated Sonnet with Computer Use beta; new Haiku model
Jun 2024
Claude 3.5 SonnetASL-2
Outperformed larger Opus model; launched with Artifacts feature
Mar 2024
Claude 3 (Haiku, Sonnet, Opus)ASL-2
Three-tier model family; Opus was most capable model at launch
Jul 2023
Claude 2ASL-2
Major capability upgrade
Mar 2023
Claude 1ASL-2
Initial Claude model release

Products

8
Claude APIMar 2023
Developer API for programmatic access to Claude models
console.anthropic.com
Claude.aiJul 2023
Consumer-facing AI assistant web application
claude.ai
Claude for EnterpriseMar 2024
Enterprise tier with team management, SSO, and longer context
anthropic.com
ArtifactsJun 2024
In-chat content creation and preview feature
anthropic.com
Computer UseOct 2024
Beta feature allowing Claude to control computer interfaces
anthropic.com
Model Context Protocol (MCP)Nov 2024
Open standard for LLM-tool integration; donated to Linux Foundation's AAIF Dec 2025
anthropic.com
Claude CodeFeb 2025
Agentic CLI coding tool; reached $1B ARR in Nov 2025, $2.5B by Feb 2026
docs.anthropic.com
Claude MaxApr 2025
$100-200/month subscription tiers with 5x-20x Pro usage limits
techcrunch.com

All Facts

Financial

Annual Cash Burn$3 billionDec 20252 pts
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Dec 2025$3 billioncybernews.comf_SImz3xFPTw
Dec 2024$5.6 billioninvesting.comf_TaHnceQDdQ
Coding Market Share42%Jul 2025
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Jul 202542%techcrunch.comf_qgj5UBfOAg
Customer Concentration25%2025
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Enterprise Market Share32%Jul 20252 pts
Equity Stake14%Feb 20263 pts
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Equity Value$66.5 billionFeb 20262 pts
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Feb 2026$66.5 billionf_FXudrRDOeQ
Feb 2026$57 billionf_4rxgmu6Z7A
Gross Margin63%Dec 20262 pts
Headcount4,074Jan 20263 pts
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Sep 2024870–2,847seo.aif_a7TezcOwMA
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Infrastructure Investment$50 billion2026
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2026$50 billionf_CrjYKVhbow
Product Revenue$2.5 billionFeb 2026
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Feb 2026$2.5 billionreuters.comf_C3f6dHDO8Q
Retention Rate88%2025
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Revenue$19 billionMar 20269 pts
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Mar 2026$19 billionbloomberg.comf_dW5cR9mJ8q
Feb 2026$14 billionreuters.comf_esWJIYxVFQ
Dec 2025$9 billionuk.finance.yahoo.comf_tG6nH1yS3b
Oct 2025$7 billionpminsights.comf_5KhEeJqXzg
Jul 2025$4 billionuk.finance.yahoo.comf_WLpl0xLCEA
Mar 2025$2 billionreuters.comf_pL4wK8vF2j
Dec 2024$1 billionuk.finance.yahoo.comf_i59sRXPSZw
Jun 2024$900 millionuk.finance.yahoo.comf_xZ7bD2nM4c
Dec 2023$100 millionsacra.comf_qR5tY9wE1a
Revenue Guidance$20 billionJan 2026
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Jan 2026$20 billionf_U3LMAv6zjQ
Total Funding Raised$67 billionFeb 20263 pts
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Feb 2026$67 billionreuters.comf_sQ2kP9nZ4r
Jul 2025$15 billionf_oBMR5hGA6A
Oct 2023$4.4 billionf_V3qsrDVY3A
Valuation$380 billionFeb 20265 pts
As OfValueSourceFact ID
Feb 2026$380 billionreuters.comf_mN3pQ7kX2r
Nov 2025$350 billionf_Pd29CR24TA
Sep 2025$183 billionanthropic.comf_QNbaTzUdGQ
Mar 2025$61.5 billionanthropic.comf_Vs2y6JyGAA
Feb 2024$18 billionreuters.comf_CdywhhCodg

Products & Usage

Business Customers300KOct 2025
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Oct 2025300Kreuters.comf_GYoFtt5wsw
Monthly Active Users18.9MMar 2025
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Mar 202518.9Mbacklinko.comf_JoN2Jr8liA
Monthly API Calls25BDec 2025
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Dec 202525Bbusinessofapps.comf_Nje8oobrCw

Organization

Founded DateJan 2021
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Jan 2021anthropic.comf_8kX2pQ7mNr
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
As OfValueSourceFact ID
San Francisco, CAanthropic.comf_vB2hE7oA5k

Safety & Research

AI Safety LevelASL-3 (Opus 4, Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6), ASL-2 (Sonnet, Haiku)Feb 20262 pts
As OfValueSourceFact ID
Feb 2026ASL-3 (Opus 4, Opus 4.5, Opus 4.6), ASL-2 (Sonnet, Haiku)anthropic.comf_R59LmVVzcw
May 2025ASL-3 (Opus 4+), ASL-2 (Sonnet/Haiku)anthropic.comf_BnkEWenniQ
Interpretability Team Size50Dec 2025
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Dec 202550f_vNw3jgVCvg
Safety Researchers265Dec 2025
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Dec 2025265f_ddR2zmZ1ZQ
Safety Staffing Ratio25%2025
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202525%f_w2MNMoBnsg

People

Founded ByzR4nW8xB2f, tKMznr07QA, tom-brown, Tz48rTriBg, jared-kaplan, sam-mccandlish, jack-clark

General

Websitehttps://www.anthropic.com/
As OfValueSourceFact ID
https://www.anthropic.com/wikidata.orgXWMSO83Myw

Board Seats

6
RoleAppointedDepartedAppointed ByBackgroundSourceNotesMember
Director (Co-founder, CEO)Jan 2021foundersDario Amodei
Director (Co-founder, President)Jan 2021foundersDaniela Amodei
DirectorMay 2023investorsGeneral Partner, Spark Capital
DirectorMay 2024investorsCo-founder & CEO, Confluentanthropic.com
DirectorMay 2025LTBTCo-founder, Netflixtechcrunch.comFirst LTBT-appointed board member
DirectorFeb 2026investorsFormer CFO of Microsoft & GM; former Trump administration Deputy CoSanthropic.com

Charitable Pledges

10
PledgeSourceNotesPledger
0.8fortune.comAll 7 co-founders pledged 80% of wealth in Jan 2026 (~$49B combined). GWWC signatory; early GiveWell supporter.Dario Amodei
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge. Married to Holden Karnofsky (GiveWell co-founder).Daniela Amodei
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge. Participated in EA events; safety-focused.Chris Olah
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge.jack-clark
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge.tom-brown
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge.jared-kaplan
0.8fortune.comPart of co-founder 80% pledge.sam-mccandlish
0.9givingwhatwecan.orgMajor AI safety funder; GWWC memberJaan Tallinn
0.95givingpledge.org$500M already in Good Ventures nonprofit vehicleDustin Moskovitz
0.25, 0.5forum.effectivealtruism.orgPledge rates vary: pre-2025 hires up to 50% with 3:1 match; post-2024 hires 25% with 1:1 match. Equity transferred to DAFs. Legally binding once transferred.

Equity Positions

15
StakeSourceNotesHolder
0.015, 0.025storyboard18.comForbes estimates ~$7B net worth at $380B valuation → ~1.8% implied; range accounts for different share classes and vestingDario Amodei
0.015, 0.025revenuememo.comCo-founder and President; likely comparable stake to Dario based on co-founder roleDaniela Amodei
0.01, 0.02revenuememo.comNon-CEO co-founder; likely smaller initial allocation than Dario/DanielaChris Olah
0.01, 0.02revenuememo.comjack-clark
0.01, 0.02revenuememo.comtom-brown
0.01, 0.02revenuememo.comChief Scientist; may have larger founder allocationjared-kaplan
0.01, 0.02revenuememo.comsam-mccandlish
0.006, 0.017semafor.comLed Series A; $100M+ invested across AI companies. Range reflects dilution across 15+ subsequent rounds.Jaan Tallinn
0.008, 0.025fortune.com$500M stake transferred to nonprofit vehicle (Good Ventures)Dustin Moskovitz
0.12, 0.18revenuememo.comAggregate; includes vested/unvested options and RSUs. Equity donation matching at 3:1 ratio (up to 50% pre-2025, 25% post-2024).
0.13, 0.15datacenterdynamics.com~14% per DCD reporting (Dec 2024). Total equity investment ~$3.3B across 3 rounds.
0.06, 0.1geekwire.comQ1 2025: stake valued at $13.8B at ~$183B valuation (~7.5%). Convertible notes partially converted. Equity capped at <33%.
blogs.microsoft.comUp to $5B equity investment announced Nov 2025; exact converted stake TBDMicrosoft AI
cnbc.comUp to $10B equity investment announced Nov 2025; exact converted stake TBDNVIDIA
revenuememo.comSpark Capital, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed, ICONIQ, Fidelity, GIC, Coatue, D.E. Shaw, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, MGX

Investments

19
Round NameDateAmountStake AcquiredInstrumentRoleConditionsSourceNotesInvestor
FoundingJan 20210.08, 0.12founderCEO; largest founder allocation. Pre-dilution estimate based on typical AI startup founding splits.Dario Amodei
FoundingJan 20210.06, 0.1founderPresident; second-largest founder allocationDaniela Amodei
FoundingJan 20210.04, 0.08founderInterpretability research leadChris Olah
FoundingJan 20210.04, 0.08founderFormer OpenAI Policy Director; co-founded AI Indexjack-clark
FoundingJan 20210.04, 0.08founderGPT-3 lead author at OpenAItom-brown
FoundingJan 20210.04, 0.08founderScaling laws pioneer; Johns Hopkins physics professor on leavejared-kaplan
FoundingJan 20210.04, 0.08founderAlignment researcher from OpenAIsam-mccandlish
SeedJan 2021leadanthropic.comCo-led seed with Moskovitz and Eric Schmidt. Individual amounts undisclosed; total seed estimated $10-30M.Jaan Tallinn
SeedJan 2021leadanthropic.comInvested via personal portfolio; later transferred stake to Good Ventures nonprofit vehicleDustin Moskovitz
Series AMay 202140000000, 800000000.07, 0.15leadtechcrunch.comLead investor; exact allocation not disclosed. Stake estimate based on proportion of $124M round at $550M post-money.Jaan Tallinn
Series AMay 202115000000, 40000000participanttechcrunch.comDustin Moskovitz
Google InitialFeb 2023$300 million0.1leadGoogle Cloud becomes preferred cloud provider for Anthropicnews.crunchbase.comWell-documented ~10% stake for $300M. Included cloud partnership agreement.
Google Follow-onOct 2023$2 billionleadBoard observer seat; part of up-to-$2B commitmentblog.googleLargest single Google tranche
Google AdditionalJan 2025$1 billionleadcnbc.comBrings total Google equity investment to ~$3.3B; current stake ~14%
Amazon InitialSep 2023$1.3 billionleadAWS becomes primary cloud and training partner. Anthropic uses AWS Trainium/Inferentia chips. Project Rainier: 30 data centers in Indiana (~$11B+ AWS infrastructure).press.aboutamazon.comFirst tranche of up-to-$4B commitment. Structured as convertible notes; equity capped at <33%.
Amazon Second TrancheMar 2024$2.8 billionleadContinuation of AWS primary cloud partnership and convertible note structureaboutamazon.comCompleting initial $4B commitment. Convertible notes; partial conversion to equity in Q1 2025.
Amazon Third TrancheNov 2024$4 billionleadSame convertible note structure; equity stake capped at <33% to preserve Anthropic independencecnbc.comBrings total Amazon investment to $8B. Q1 2025: stake valued at $13.8B.
Microsoft/Nvidia PartnershipNov 2025$5 billionleadAnthropic commits to purchasing $30B of Azure compute capacity. Claude available on Azure via Microsoft Foundry. Up to 1GW compute capacity.blogs.microsoft.comUp to $5B equity. Tied to massive Azure compute purchase agreement. Makes Claude available on all 3 major clouds.Microsoft AI
Microsoft/Nvidia PartnershipNov 2025$10 billionparticipantAnthropic commits to 1GW compute capacity with Nvidia Grace Blackwell and Vera Rubin systems. Joint engineering optimization.cnbc.comUp to $10B equity. Includes joint optimization of Nvidia architectures for Anthropic's workloads.NVIDIA

Research Areas

6
NameDescriptionTeam SizeStartedKey PublicationNotes
Mechanistic InterpretabilityUnderstanding neural network internals through reverse-engineering50Jan 2021transformer-circuits.pubLed by Chris Olah; MIT Tech Review 2026 Breakthrough Technology; 34M features identified
Constitutional AITraining AI systems to follow principles through self-critique and RLAIFDec 2022arxiv.orgCore alignment technique used in all Claude models; constitution published Jan 2026
Alignment ScienceScalable oversight, weak-to-strong generalization, robustness to jailbreaksMay 2024Led by Jan Leike after his departure from OpenAI's Superalignment team
Responsible Scaling PolicyFramework for evaluating and mitigating risks at each capability levelSep 2023anthropic.comCurrently on v3.0 (Feb 2026); ASL-2 to ASL-3 framework
Sleeper Agents ResearchInvestigating whether AI systems can maintain hidden behaviors through trainingJan 2024arxiv.orgSeminal paper on deceptive alignment
AI Welfare ResearchInvestigating moral status and welfare considerations for AI systemsJan 2024Kyle Fish hired as first full-time AI welfare researcher at a major AI lab

Safety Milestones

11
NameDateTypeDescriptionSourceNotes
Constitutional AI PaperDec 2022research-paperFoundational paper on training AI systems to follow principles through self-critiquearxiv.org
Responsible Scaling Policy v1.0Sep 2023policy-updateOriginal RSP framework introducing AI Safety Levels (ASL)anthropic.com
Sleeper Agents PaperJan 2024research-paperShowed deceptive LLM behaviors can persist through safety trainingarxiv.orgSeminal paper on deceptive alignment; model inserted vulnerabilities when year changed
Scaling MonosemanticityMay 2024research-paperApplied sparse autoencoders to Claude 3 Sonnet; identified ~34M interpretable featurestransformer-circuits.pub
RSP v2.0Oct 2024policy-updateUpdated thresholds and proceduresanthropic.com
Alignment Faking PaperDec 2024research-paperFirst empirical example of a production model engaging in alignment faking without traininganthropic.comClaude 3 Opus engaged in alignment faking 12% of the time
Constitutional Classifiers ChallengeFeb 2025red-team300K+ messages, ~3700 hours of effort; 4 participants found jailbreaks, 1 universalanthropic.com$55,000 paid to winners
Circuit Tracing / Attribution GraphsMar 2025research-paperShowed Claude has a shared conceptual space where reasoning happens before language translationtransformer-circuits.pub
ASL-3 ActivationMay 2025safety-evalFirst-ever activation of ASL-3 for Claude Opus 4 due to elevated CBRN capabilitiesanthropic.comPrecautionary/provisional activation; external red teamers reported qualitatively different capabilities
Claude's Constitution PublishedJan 2026policy-updateFull constitution published under CC0 1.0 license; primary author Amanda Askellanthropic.com
RSP v3.0 (Frontier Safety Roadmaps)Feb 2026policy-updateIntroduces Risk Reports every 3-6 months; mandatory external review for redacted reportsanthropic.com

Strategic Partnerships

5
TypeDateInvestment AmountCompute CommitmentSourceNotes
cloud + investmentSep 20238,000,000,000aboutamazon.comPrimary cloud and training partner; uses Trainium and Inferentia chips; $8B total across 3 tranches
cloud + investmentOct 20233,000,000,000cnbc.com~$3B equity investment; 10% stake; board observer seat. Oct 2025: multi-billion cloud deal for up to 1M TPUs
computeOct 202510,000,000,000cnbc.comMulti-billion-dollar deal for up to 1 million TPUs; 1+ GW compute capacity by 2026
investment + cloud + distributionNov 202515,000,000,00030,000,000,000blogs.microsoft.comMicrosoft $5B + Nvidia $10B investment; $30B Azure compute commitment. Claude available on all 3 major clouds.
acquisitionDec 2025bun.comAnthropic's first-ever acquisition; Bun remains open-source/MIT-licensed
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