Anthropic
Founded by a group of researchers who left OpenAI — including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei — as an AI safety and research company focused on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
Founded2021
HeadquartersSan Francisco, CA
IndustryAI Safety & Research
Overview
Founders
Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, Tom Brown, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish and Jack Clark
Founded 2021
Landmark Achievements
- Built the Claude family of large language models, competing at the frontier of AI capability.
- Pioneered “Constitutional AI,” training models to be helpful and harmless from an explicit set of written principles.
- Became a leading voice on AI safety, advancing interpretability research and a public Responsible Scaling Policy.
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