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Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety company and frontier model developer founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and six other former OpenAI researchers. The company develops the Claude family of large language models (LLMs) with an emphasis on safety, interpretability, and alignment research. It operates as a public benefit corporation and has grown into one of the most highly valued private technology companies, with products spanning consumer AI assistants, enterprise APIs, and agentic coding tools.

Foundation Models / LLM Providers ai-safety enterprise-ai developer-tools ai-assistants agentic-ai

anthropic.com ↗· San Francisco, California, USA· founded 2021reported

Fresh · 3d ago

Latest valuation

$965B post-money (reported; Series H, May 2026, per Anthropic official announcement)

Annual Recurring Revenue

$47B Annual Recurring Revenue run-rate (reported; as of May 2026, per Anthropic Series H press relea

Headcount

~2,300–3,406 (estimated; Fortune reported ~2,300 as of December 2025; Revelio Labs estimated ~3,406

Funding total

~$108B+ (reported; cumulative through Series H, May 2026, per Anthropic press releases and Crunchbas

OVERVIEW

In May 2026, Anthropic closed a $65B Series H at a $965B post-money valuation — the largest private funding round ever recorded — led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, including $15B of previously committed hyperscaler investments (including $5B from Amazon). The company simultaneously released Claude Opus 4.8 and reported a $47B revenue run rate. On June 9, 2026, Anthropic launched Claude Fable 5 and Claude Mythos 5, the first publicly available 'Mythos-class' models. Claude Fable 5 posted 95.5% on SWE-Bench Verified and 80.3% on SWE-Bench Pro at launch. Claude Code, the agentic coding CLI tool, reached over $2.5B in annualized revenue as of February 2026. Anthropic is reportedly evaluating an IPO as early as October 2026. The company operates a Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure. Revenue accounting methodology (gross reporting including cloud reseller pass-through) has been a subject of competitive dispute.

Status

active

Tier

deep-profile

Profitability

Not yet profitable; Wall Street Journal reported the company expects a ~130% revenue surge to reach its first operating profit; significant infrastructure costs ongoing (reported)

Pricing

Freemium to enterprise. Consumer: Free tier; Pro ($20/month); Max 5x ($100/month); Max 20x ($200/month). Teams: Standard and Premium seat-based plans. Enterprise: custom pricing. API: pay-per-token (e

FUNDING HISTORY · 1

$30B Series G (Feb 12, 2026, GIC & Coatue co-led)

$380B

~$64B

PRODUCTS · 5

AI Assistant / Consumer Chatbot

Web and mobile AI assistant powered by Claude large language models, enabling users to chat, write, code, analyze documents, conduct research, and generate content.

Developer Platform / Foundation Model API

Provides programmatic access to the full Claude model family for developers and enterprises to embed Claude into their own applications, pipelines, and workflows.

Agentic Coding Tool

A terminal-based agentic coding tool that enables developers to delegate software engineering tasks — writing, editing, testing, and debugging code — using natural language from the command line.

Agentic Work Tool / GUI Coding Assistant

A graphical user interface (GUI)-based agentic productivity tool aimed at non-technical users, enabling document generation, spreadsheet creation, presentation building, and complex knowledge work workflows.

Model Context Protocol (MCP)

Open Standard / Developer Infrastructure

An open standard protocol for connecting AI assistants to external tools, data sources, and services, enabling Claude and other AI models to retrieve context and invoke external capabilities in a standardized way.

MODELS · 8

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude 4 · 2026-04-16

Claude Mythos Preview

Claude Mythos · 2026-04-07

Claude Opus 4.6

Claude Opus 4 · 2026-02

Claude 5 / Mythos-class · 2026-06-09

Claude Opus 4.8

Claude 4 / Opus · 2026-05-28

Claude Sonnet 5

Claude 5 / Sonnet · 2026-06-30

Claude Opus 4.7

Claude 4 / Opus · 2026-04-16

Claude Haiku 4.5

Claude 4 / Haiku · 2025-10-01

TEAM · 36 key people

CEO / Co-Founder

Chief Executive Officer

President / Co-Founder

Chief Financial Officer

Andrej Karpathy

Pretraining Team Lead at Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Co-Founder, Head of Policy

Co-Founder of Anthropic

Co-Founder of Anthropic

Co-Founder of Anthropic

Board Observer / Series A Funder

Chief Science Officer and Co-founder of Anthropic

Co-founder and Chief Interpretability Researcher at Anthropic

Chief Commercial Officer

Chief Commercial Officer of Anthropic

Chief Product Officer

Chief Product Officer of Anthropic

Danny Hernandez

Research Scientist at Anthropic

AI Alignment Researcher

Christopher Olah

Co-Founder and Interpretability Research Lead at Anthropic

Managing Director of International

Managing Director of International at Anthropic

Alignment researcher, Head of Safety and Policy at Anthropic

Board Member at Anthropic

Board Member at Anthropic

Board Member at Anthropic

Senior AI Researcher at Anthropic

Co-founder and Member of Technical Staff at Anthropic

Member of Technical Staff

Technical Staff Member

Assistant Professor of Computer Science at Stanford and Technical Staff at Anthropic

Research Scientist

Head of Claude Code at Anthropic

TALENT FLOW · shares people with 4 companies

People who hold a role here and at another AI company. See the full graph →

Andrej Karpathy · Ben Mann · Christopher Olah · Daniela Amodei · Danny Hernandez · Dario Amodei · Jack Clark · Jan Leike · John Schulman

Google DeepMind (Gemini)3 shared

Christopher Olah · Niki Parmar · Sholto Douglas

ChatGPT2 shared

Andrej Karpathy · Jared Kaplan

Meta AI (Llama)1 shared

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