Anthropic
Artificial IntelligenceFounded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems like the Claude model family.
Official Anthropic Careers Website
Quick Facts
- Founded
- 2021
- Founders
- Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei & others
- Headquarters
- San Francisco, California
- Industry
- Artificial Intelligence
About Anthropic
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a team of researchers and engineers who previously worked at OpenAI, including former VP of Research Dario Amodei. The company was built from the ground up with a strict focus on AI safety and interpretability.
Anthropic is best known for developing 'Constitutional AI'—a training methodology that aligns models to a specific set of principles without requiring constant human feedback. Its flagship product, Claude, is widely used by consumers and enterprises, backed by major investments from Amazon and Google.
What Anthropic Does
Claude (Models)
The Claude family of large language models, known for advanced reasoning, large context windows, and safety.
API & Developer Platform
Enterprise infrastructure allowing developers to embed Claude into their products securely.
Safety Research
Pioneering research into mechanistic interpretability, model alignment, and Constitutional AI.
Career Areas
Types of professional roles found inside Anthropic.
- AI Research
- Software & Systems Engineering
- Trust & Safety
- Product & Design
- Go-to-Market
- Operations & Policy
Anthropic's History
- 2021Founded
Anthropic is founded as a Public Benefit Corporation focused on AI safety.
- 2022Constitutional AI
Publishes seminal research on Constitutional AI, establishing a scalable method for model alignment.
- 2023Claude launched
Claude is released to the public and enterprise customers; Amazon announces a multi-billion dollar investment.
- 2024Claude 3 family
The Claude 3 model family is released, setting new industry benchmarks for performance and multimodal capabilities.
Purpose & Values
“Ensuring transformative AI helps people and society flourish”
