Anthropic, U.S.-based AI Company, Focuses on Reliable and Steerable AI with Claude Assistant
Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence research and technology company founded in 2021 and headquartered in San Francisco, is dedicated to building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company's primary product is Claude, an AI assistant, which is available to users through a free option, paid plans, and developer tools like Claude Code and an API. Anthropic also provides free learning resources through its Academy, covering topics from everyday Claude use to AI fluency and building with its API. The company emphasizes AI safety research, aiming to prevent AI from acting in harmful or unreliable ways. Claude is designed to assist with tasks such as writing, editing, summarizing, coding help, analysis, and learning, with various models like Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus offering different levels of speed, cost, and capability.