Anthropic, Inc.
Anthropic is dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems with a focus on safety and responsible AI development for the long-term benefit of humanity.
Founding Story
Anthropic was founded in February 2021 by seven former OpenAI employees who left due to disagreements regarding AI safety and the direction of AI development. The founders, led by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, sought to create a safer, research-focused alternative that prioritizes interpretability, steerability, and alignment with human values.
Discussions
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Leadership
Founders
Dario Amodei
PhD in biophysics from Princeton University, postdoctoral scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. Previously worked as researcher at Baidu (2014-2015), researcher at Google, and Vice President of Research at OpenAI (2016-2021) before co-founding Anthropic.
Daniela Amodei
BA in English Literature, Politics, and Music from UC Santa Cruz (Summa Cum Laude). Previously worked at Stripe (2013-2019) as Lead Technical Recruiter and Risk Program Manager, then at OpenAI (2019-2021) as Engineering Manager, VP of People, and VP of Safety and Policy before co-founding Anthropic.
Jack Clark
Former OpenAI employee, currently Head of Policy at Anthropic.
Tom Brown
Former OpenAI employee, currently Chief Compute Officer at Anthropic.
Sam McCandlish
Former OpenAI employee, currently Chief Architect at Anthropic.
Jared Kaplan
Former OpenAI employee, currently Chief Science Officer at Anthropic.
Ben Mann
Former OpenAI employee who co-founded Anthropic.
Executive Team
Dario Amodei
CEO and Co-founder
PhD in biophysics from Princeton, former VP of Research at OpenAI
Daniela Amodei
President and Co-founder
Former VP of Safety and Policy at OpenAI, former Risk Program Manager at Stripe
Business Model
Revenue Model
Token-based API usage (70-75% of revenue), direct-to-consumer and business subscriptions (10-15% of revenue), reserved capacity and enterprise commitments for fixed-rate contracts. Distribution via major cloud providers including AWS Bedrock, Google Vertex AI, and Microsoft Azure.
Pricing Tiers
Limited access to Claude models
Enhanced access for individual users
Maximum usage tier for power users, includes Cowork desktop agent
5-seat minimum, team collaboration features
For technical users, CLI and IDE integration
For business users
Administrative and compliance controls for large organizations
Higher rates for 200K+ context window
Premium tier for highest performance
Target Markets
- Enterprise customers (Fortune 500 companies)
- Software developers and engineers
- Healthcare providers and payers
- Life sciences and pharmaceutical companies
- Financial services institutions
- Government and national security agencies
- Software engineering and coding
- Customer support automation
- Enterprise workflows and productivity
- Healthcare and clinical operations
- Life sciences and drug discovery
- Regulatory operations and compliance
- U.S. Department of Defense
- U.S. intelligence and defense agencies
- U.S. national security agencies
- Iceland Ministry of Education and Children
History & Milestones
Launched Anthropic Labs division; Launched Claude for Healthcare; Launched Cowork desktop agent
Reached $1 billion run-rate revenue
Introduced Claude 3.7 Sonnet with hybrid reasoning; Launched Claude Code as standalone product
Integrated Claude into Databricks Data Intelligence Platform; Raised $3.5 billion Series E at $61.5 billion valuation
Announced Claude 4 (Opus and Sonnet); Hosted first developer conference; Full launch of Claude Code; Secured $2.5 billion revolving credit facility
6 AI Tools by Anthropic, Inc.
Agent Skills
2moAn open specification for packaging reusable skills that give autonomous agents domain expertise, new capabilities, and repeatable workflows.
MCP Servers
2moA public directory and index of Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers that lets developers discover, browse, and integrate data and tool connectors for AI agents and applications.
Run Claude Code tasks in isolated cloud VMs from your browser, working directly against your GitHub repos and auto-opening PRs when done.
Developer-focused API service for accessing Claude AI models for text generation, reasoning, and conversation capabilities.
Claude
7moConversational AI assistant focused on being helpful, harmless, and honest with advanced reasoning capabilities.
Claude Code
7moAgentic coding tool from Anthropic that lives in your terminal, understands your codebase, and helps you code faster through natural language commands.
