Anthropic Claude AI

Anthropic is a prominent American artificial intelligence safety and research company, best known for its 'Claude' family of large language models. The company was founded in 2021 by former leaders of OpenAI, siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, following disagreements regarding AI safety and corporate direction. Anthropic is headquartered in San Francisco, California, and operates as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a legal structure that allows it to prioritize safety and ethical development alongside financial returns.

As of 2026, Anthropic remains an independent entity, although it has received massive strategic investments totaling tens of billions of dollars from global tech giants including Amazon and Google. Despite these significant financial stakes, the company remains controlled by its founders and a unique governance mechanism called the Long-Term Benefit Trust, which is designed to ensure the brand's mission of building 'reliable, interpretable, and steerable' AI systems is maintained. Its products, such as Claude 4, Claude Code, and the Model Context Protocol, are developed primarily in the United States and deployed globally via cloud platforms like AWS and Google Cloud.