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Anthropic

AI lab

AI safety and research company, creators of Claude.

Key people

Dario Amodei

CEO & co-founder

Co-founder and chief executive of Anthropic, the maker of Claude. A former vice president of research at OpenAI, he trained as a physicist and computational neuroscientist.

Daniela Amodei

President & co-founder

Co-founder and president of Anthropic, where she oversees the company's operations and business. She previously held senior roles at OpenAI and Stripe.

Jared Kaplan

Chief Science Officer & co-founder

Theoretical physicist and co-founder of Anthropic, where he is chief science officer. He is known for his research on neural scaling laws and helped pioneer Constitutional AI.

Events (60)

24 Sep 2026

White House asks OpenAI and Anthropic to withhold new models from UK testers

Regulation
24 Sep 2026

Anthropic signs $11.6 billion cloud deal with Akamai

Partnership
23 Sep 2026

Claude autonomously discovers a novel, CRISPR-like enzyme system

Research
23 Sep 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Marketplace with over 2,000 connectors and partner products

Product launch
23 Sep 2026

OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs urge UN Security Council to adopt global AI standards

Regulation
23 Sep 2026

Amazon opens Seller Central to outside AI agents, starting with Claude

Partnership
22 Sep 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5.5

Model release
16 Sep 2026

Anthropic merges Claude chat and Cowork, adds Claude Docs and Slides

Product launch
12 Sep 2026

Dario Amodei calls on the industry to 'pace the frontier'

Other
1 Sep 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5.1 and Mythos 5.1

Model release
28 Aug 2026

Judge rules Pentagon's Anthropic blacklisting was illegal

Regulation
26 Aug 2026

Anthropic signs $45B compute deal with Nscale

Partnership
24 Jul 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 5

Model release
22 Jul 2026

AMD to invest up to $5B in Anthropic in 2 GW GPU deal

Chips
30 Jun 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 5

Model release
12 Jun 2026

US Commerce order forces Anthropic to suspend Fable 5 and Mythos 5

Regulation
9 Jun 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Fable 5, a public Mythos-class model

Model release
1 Jun 2026

Anthropic confidentially files for an IPO

Company
28 May 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.8

Model release
28 May 2026

Anthropic raises $65B at a $965B valuation, overtaking OpenAI

Funding
6 May 2026

Anthropic rents all of xAI's Colossus 1 data center

Partnership
16 Apr 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.7

Model release
7 Apr 2026

Anthropic unveils Claude Mythos Preview and Project Glasswing

Model release
26 Mar 2026

Judge blocks Pentagon's 'supply chain risk' ban on Anthropic

Regulation
27 Feb 2026

Trump orders agencies to drop Anthropic after it refuses Pentagon terms

Regulation
17 Feb 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.6

Model release
12 Feb 2026

Anthropic raises $30B Series G at a $380B valuation

Funding
5 Feb 2026

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.6

Model release
21 Jan 2026

Anthropic publishes a new constitution for Claude

Research
12 Jan 2026

Anthropic launches Claude Cowork, a desktop agent for knowledge work

Product launch
9 Dec 2025

Anthropic donates MCP to the new Agentic AI Foundation

Open source
24 Nov 2025

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.5 at a 67% lower price

Model release
18 Nov 2025

Microsoft and Nvidia to invest up to $15B in Anthropic

Funding
13 Nov 2025

Anthropic disrupts first reported AI-orchestrated cyber espionage campaign

Research
23 Oct 2025

Anthropic secures access to up to 1 million Google TPUs

Partnership
15 Oct 2025

Anthropic releases Claude Haiku 4.5

Model release
29 Sep 2025

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4.5

Model release
24 Sep 2025

Microsoft adds Anthropic's Claude models to Microsoft 365 Copilot

Partnership
5 Sep 2025

Anthropic agrees to pay $1.5B to settle authors' copyright suit

Regulation
2 Sep 2025

Anthropic raises $13B Series F at a $183B valuation

Funding
5 Aug 2025

Anthropic releases Claude Opus 4.1

Model release
14 Jul 2025

Pentagon awards up to $200M each to Anthropic, Google and xAI

Partnership
23 Jun 2025

Court rules training Claude on books is fair use in Bartz v. Anthropic

Regulation
22 May 2025

Anthropic releases Claude 4 Opus and Claude 4 Sonnet

Model release
22 May 2025

Anthropic releases Claude Sonnet 4 and Claude Haiku 4

Model release
24 Feb 2025

Anthropic releases Claude 3.7 Sonnet

Model release
24 Feb 2025

Anthropic launches Claude Code CLI

Product launch
21 Feb 2025

Anthropic publishes Claude's character guidelines

Research
7 Jan 2025

Anthropic raises $2B from Google

Funding
25 Nov 2024

Anthropic launches Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Open source
24 Oct 2024

Anthropic raises $2B from Google and others

Funding
22 Oct 2024

Anthropic releases upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and Claude 3.5 Haiku

Model release
20 Jun 2024

Anthropic launches Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Model release
27 Mar 2024

Amazon completes additional $2.75B investment in Anthropic

Funding
4 Mar 2024

Anthropic launches Claude 3 models

Model release
25 Sep 2023

Amazon to invest up to $4B in Anthropic

Funding
11 Jul 2023

Anthropic releases Claude 2

Model release
5 Jun 2023

AWS adds foundation models to SageMaker JumpStart

Product launch
13 Apr 2023

AWS announces Bedrock foundation model service

Product launch
16 Dec 2022

Anthropic details Constitutional AI

Research