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Company Background

Anthropic is an artificial intelligence startup founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, California, USA, that is rapidly growing in the AI space, with a unique technology concept and product...

Founded by former OpenAI core member Dario Amodei and his team, Anthropic is dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and manipulable AI systems, and was founded on the idea of Constitutional AI. Since its inception, the company has developed the concept of "Constitutional AI," a set of predefined values and behavioral guidelines that guide models in generating content with a high degree of consistency and interpretability.

Anthropic's founding team members have deep academic and technical backgrounds, and most of them are former core OpenAI employees who have been deeply involved in OpenAI's GPT-3, reinforcement learning with the introduction of human preferences, etc. Dario Amodei, who holds an undergraduate degree in physics from Stanford University and a PhD in the intersection of neuroscience and AI from Princeton University, joined OpenAI in 2015 as Vice President and led the development of landmark models such as GPT-2 and GPT-3. Dario Amodei joined OpenAI as Vice President in 2015 and has led the development of milestone models such as GPT-2 and GPT-3. Daniela Amodei graduated from Stanford University with a degree in Philosophy and Computer Science, and has focused on AI ethics and policy during her tenure at OpenAI. As co-founder and president of Anthropic, she brings her deep policy and governance experience to the company's development and promotes the balance between AI technology development and ethical values. As co-founder of Anthropic, she brings her deep policy and governance experience to the company's development, and promotes the balance between AI technology development and ethical values.

Financing

As of April 2025, Anthropic has completed multiple rounds of funding totaling over $17.8 billion, making it one of the most valuable AI startups in the world. Its investors include venture capital firms General Catalyst, Menlo Ventures, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and tech companies Amazon (Amazon) and Google (Google). The company's most recent financing was a Series E round in March 2025, raising $3.5 billion and valuing the company at $61.5 billion after the financing.

Products & Technologies

1. Main products: Anthropic's main product is its large-scale language model (LLM) family, called Claude, which has built a hierarchical, full-featured product matrix that covers a diverse range of applications, from Haiku for lightweight deployments, to Sonnet for superior price/performance, to the flagship product, Opus.

2. Technical Highlights::

   • multimodal processing: Claude's technical architecture employs innovative multimodal technology while based on large-scale pre-training, and is able to simultaneously process multiple data forms such as text, images, audio, etc., providing richer and more flexible services than traditional text processing models.
   • intelligent inference: Claude has a significant advantage in its ability to reason, not only understanding information on the surface, but also reasoning at a deeper level, responding to more complex and dynamic work scenarios and providing customized and precise solutions.
   • safe and controllable: Anthropic has invested 30%'s R&D resources in AI Alignment research to ensure that the decisions of AI systems conform to human ethical norms through value alignment technology. Its core technology, Constitutional AI (Constitutional AI), constrains model behavior through preset ethical rules and consists of a three-layer control mechanism: the base layer extracts value norms (RLHF) from human feedback through reinforcement learning, the middle layer sets verifiable mathematical constraints, and the application layer deploys a real-time monitoring system. This architecture allows the Claude model to demonstrate a harmful content output rate of 40% lower than similar products in tests.

3. Product Iteration::

   • Claude version 1.0 debuted in 2023 and quickly caught the attention of the industry upon release.
   • On July 11, 2023, Anthropic released the new Claude 2 major language model.
   • On March 4, 2024, Anthropic released the Claude 3 model family.
   • On October 22, 2024, U.S. artificial intelligence startup Anthropic announced the launch of an upgraded version of its Claude 3.5 Sonnet model, an upgraded version of the Claude 3.5 Big Language model that Anthropic claims will work "as if one were working alone in front of a computer". Anthropic claims it will be "like working alone in front of a computer".
   • On February 25, 2025, Anthropic announced the launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet, calling it its smartest model to date and the first hybrid inference model on the market.
   • May 23, 2025 BST Anthropic has officially launched the Claude 4 series of large models.

business model

Anthropic mainly earns money through subscription fees for its products. According to its official website, Anthropic adopts differential pricing for different product models and APIs. According to Dealroom statistics, Anthropic's annual revenue continues to grow from 2021 to 2024, with $3.4 million in 2021, $7.9 million in 2022, $45 million in 2023, and a fast-growing 2024 forecast of $850 million.