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Anthropic

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company.

MLQ

Oct 20, 2023 2 min read

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AI research and products that put safety at the frontier.

Anthropic is an AI safety and research company based in San Francisco.

The team has experience across machine learning, physics, policy, and product. Together, they're goal is to generate research and create reliable, beneficial AI systems.
The company’s research interests span multiple areas including natural language, human feedback, scaling laws, reinforcement learning, code generation, and interpretability.

Anthropic

AI safety and research company.

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Core Products

The initial product from the company is Claude, an AI assistant that can help with a wide range of tasks such as scheduling meetings, booking flights, and more.

Constitutional AI (CAI) shapes the outputs of AI systems according to a set of principles, with the goal of making a helpful, harmless, and honest AI assistant.

Funding Information

Anthropic has raised $2.8 billion in funding to date.
Amazon recently announced they will invest another $4B for a minority stake
Google is reportedly in talks to invest another $2 billion in Anthropic
In May 2023, Anthropic raised $450M to build next-gen AI assistants.
Notable investors include Spark Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, and Zoom Ventures.

Founders

Anthropic is led by former OpenAI executives including siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei who run the company as CEO and president respectively.

Other co-founders include Jack Clark (former Policy Director at OpenAI), Tom Brown (former Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI), and Sam McCandlish (former Research Lead at OpenAI.