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Anthropic

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Artificial Intelligence·The Japan Times

AI safety and research public benefit company behind Claude, Constitutional AI, and frontier computer-use agents.

Overview & Mission

Anthropic is a frontier AI safety and research public benefit corporation founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. Headquartered in San Francisco, Anthropic has raised billions in strategic capital from leading technology partners including Amazon and Google to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

The company is the creator of Claude, a premier family of foundation models recognized for setting industry benchmarks in complex reasoning, software engineering, and multi-lingual nuance. With breakthroughs like Constitutional AI, Claude 3.7 Sonnet hybrid reasoning architecture, and revolutionary Computer Use capabilities, Anthropic empowers developers to automate intricate digital desktop tasks safely.

Anthropic's core mission is to build safe, beneficial artificial intelligence that elevates human potential while mitigating systemic catastrophic risks. The organization prioritizes empirical safety research, mechanistic interpretability, and responsible scaling policies to ensure transformative AI advancements align transparently with human values.