Anthropic PBC

Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence research and development company founded in 2021 by siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, both former executives at OpenAI. The company was established to prioritize safety, transparency, and ethical alignment in AI development. Starting as the AI Safety Lab, Anthropic incorporated as a public benefit corporation, which legally empowers its board to balance profit motives with its public mission of advancing safe AI technologies.

Based in San Francisco, California, Anthropic focuses on building reliable, interpretable, and steerable generative AI systems with its flagship products being the Claude family of large language models (LLMs), including specialized variants like Claude Code. The company’s research agenda emphasizes the safety properties of advanced AI and is operationalized through both product offerings and governance frameworks such as the Long-Term Benefit Trust. Anthropic’s business model centers on enterprise SaaS solutions, providing tiered subscriptions and API access to its models, serving primarily enterprise clients, developers, and research organizations, with some offerings also accessible to small to medium-sized businesses.

Anthropic has secured substantial funding through late-stage venture capital rounds, raising approximately $7.5 to $8 billion from major investors including Amazon, Google, and Menlo Ventures. This financial backing has supported rapid development and deployment of AI systems as well as strengthening its safety-focused research initiatives. The company maintains a strong social media presence and operates independently without a parent company or publicly known subsidiaries.