- Type
- company
- Founded
- 2021
- HQ
- San Francisco, California, United States
- Website
- anthropic.com
- Wikipedia
- en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
Anthropic is an AI safety company founded in 2021 by former members of OpenAI, including Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. The company focuses on developing large language models with an emphasis on safety, interpretability, and alignment with human values. Anthropic introduced Constitutional AI, a training methodology designed to make AI systems more helpful, harmless, and honest by training them against a set of principles.
The company has developed Claude, a family of large language models available through various interfaces including a web application and API. Anthropic's research emphasizes understanding and mitigating risks from advanced AI systems, including work on interpretability, adversarial robustness, and long-term AI alignment. The organization has received significant funding from investors including Google, Salesforce, and others, and has grown to become one of the prominent AI safety-focused organizations in the field.
Last updated 31 August 2026