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Anthropic - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia American artificial intelligence research company This article is about the company. For other uses, see Anthropic (disambiguation) . Anthropic PBC Logo Company type Public benefit corporation Industry Artificial intelligence Founded 2021 &#59; 5 years ago  ( 2021 ) Founders Dario Amodei Daniela Amodei Jared Kaplan [ 1 ] Jack Clark [ 2 ] Chris Olah [ 3 ] Ben Mann [ 4 ] Sam McCandlish [ 3 ] Tom Brown [ 3 ] Headquarters 500 Howard Street , [ 5 ] San Francisco , California , U.S. Key people Dario Amodei ( CEO ) Daniela Amodei ( president ) Mike Krieger ( CPO ) Products Claude Claude Code Claude Cowork Revenue $14 billion (2025) Number of employees 2,500 (2026) [ 6 ] Website anthropic.com Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco . It has developed a family of large language models (LLMs) named Claude . Anthropic operates as a public benefit corporation , which researches and develops AI to "study their safety properties at the technological frontier" and use this research to deploy safe models for the public. [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former members of OpenAI , including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei , who serve as president and CEO, respectively. [ 9 ] As of February 2026, [update] Anthropic has an estimated value of $380 billion. [ 10 ] History [ edit ] Dario Amodei , co-founder and CEO Founding and early development (2021–2022) [ edit ] Anthropic was founded in 2021 by seven former employees of OpenAI, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, the latter of whom was OpenAI's Vice President of Research. [ 11 ] [ 12 ] In April 2022, Anthropic announced it had received $580 million in funding, [ 13 ] including a $500 million investment from FTX under the leadership of Sam Bankman-Fried . [ 14 ] [ 4 ] In the summer of 2022, Anthropic finished training the first version of Claude but did not release it, citing the need for further internal safety testing and a desire to avoid initiating a potentially hazardous race to develop increasingly powerful AI systems. [ 15 ] Major investments [ edit ] In September 2023, Amazon announced a partnership with Anthropic. Amazon became a minority stakeholder by initially investing $1.25 billion and planning a total investment of $4 billion. [ 16 ] The remaining $2.75 billion was invested in March 2024. [ 17 ] In November 2024, Amazon invested another $4 billion, doubling its total investment. [ 18 ] As part of the deal, Anthropic uses Amazon Web Services (AWS) as its primary cloud provider and makes its AI models available to AWS customers. [ 16 ] In October 2023, Google invested $500 million in Anthropic and committed to an additional $1.5 billion 

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