ORGANIZATION
Anthropic
An AI-safety research company founded in the US in 2021, led by the Amodei siblings (Dario and Daniela), formerly of OpenAI. It introduced Constitutional AI—an approach in which an LLM's behaviour is governed by a written 'constitution'—and released its conversational LLM Claude in 2023. With cumulative investment of roughly US$2 billion from Google and up to US$4 billion from Amazon, Anthropic became the largest counter-pole to OpenAI in generative AI. In November 2024 it announced a partnership with Palantir and AWS to provide Claude to the US intelligence and defense community.
Organization
- Founded
- 2021
- Status
- Active
- Active for
- 5 years
- Appearances
- 03
- Name
- ENAnthropicJAAnthropic
Appearances
- March 14, 2023Anthropic Releases Claude — A Safety-First Rival LLMAnthropic—founded in 2021 by the Amodei siblings (Dario and Daniela) and others after their departure from OpenAI—released Claude, its conversational LLM, to the public. By coincidence OpenAI announced GPT-4 the same day. Anthropic emphasises its own safety methodology (Constitutional AI), and the two-pole structure of generative AI was established. Google invested US$400 million in 2023; Amazon committed up to US$4 billion over 2023–24. Anthropic grew into the most well-capitalised counter-pole to OpenAI.
- April 13, 2023AWS Bedrock — Foundation Models as a Cloud ServiceAmazon Web Services unveiled Amazon Bedrock—a unified API providing access to multiple foundation models (Anthropic's Claude, AI21 Jurassic, Stability's Stable Diffusion, Amazon Titan, and others). Customers could invoke foundation models serverlessly without removing their data from AWS. As a counter to the Microsoft–Azure–OpenAI exclusivity, Bedrock was AWS's strategic statement of a 'many models, one platform' approach. Combined with the up-to-US$4-billion investment in Anthropic in September 2023, Bedrock became the flagship of the multi-model camp.
- January–November 2024AI Goes to War — OpenAI Policy Reversal and the Anthropic-Palantir-AWS PactOn 10 January, OpenAI quietly removed the 'military and warfare' prohibition from its usage policy, opening the door to defense work. In November of the same year, Anthropic announced a partnership with Palantir and AWS to provide Claude to the US intelligence and defense community. The pretense that generative AI was a peaceful Silicon Valley tool fell away; AI was openly recast as critical national-security infrastructure. A US Department of Defense collaboration with OpenAI was also disclosed in the same year; the integration with the military-industrial complex passed a point of no return.