Anthropic

Organization Overview

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence security and research company located in San Francisco, USA. It operates as a Public-Benefit Corporation and is committed to building cutting-edge AI systems that are reliable, explainable, and controllable. The company's most well-known product is the Claude series of large language models, and it is at the forefront of the industry in AI alignment, interpretability and security research.

Creation and Team

• 2021 Co-founded by Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, brother and sister, and many other former OpenAI core researchers.

• Propose alignment methods such as Constitutional AI, emphasizing honesty, harmlessness and self-correction.

• MCP (Model Context Protocol, Large Model Context Protocol) was released in November 2024, becoming an open standard for connecting large models and external tools, ushering in the AI ​​Agent era.

Flagship model

As of mid-2026, the Claude family is stratified by capabilities and costs:

• Opus: The most powerful flagship, the latest is Claude Opus 4.8, which performs well in agent (Agentic) tasks and advanced programming

• Sonnet: the balanced choice, latest Claude Sonnet 4.6

• Haiku: high speed and lightweight, the latest is Claude Haiku 4.5

• Mythos-class: Claude Fable 5 (June 2026) is the first Mythos-class model

Latest Development (2026)

• Completed US$65 billion Series H financing, valued at approximately US$965 billion, surpassing OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup.

• The enterprise-level business is growing rapidly, with annual run-rate revenue exceeding approximately 47 billion US dollars.

• June 1, 2026 has secretly submitted an IPO application and signed large-scale computing power agreements with Amazon, Google, Broadcom, etc.

Leader: Dario Amodei (CEO) Official website: anthropic.com

Note: The financing, valuation and revenue data in this section are public information as of mid-2026 and may change over time.