Anthropic is an American AI research and development company headquartered in San Francisco that develops and provides large language models (LLMs) under the Claude product family.
Anthropic is an American AI research and development company headquartered in San Francisco that develops and provides large language models (LLMs) under the Claude product family. The company was founded in 2021 by siblings Dario Amodei (CEO) and Daniela Amodei (President) along with five other former senior employees of OpenAI, who departed due to disagreements over AI safety and development direction. Anthropic is organized as a public benefit corporation (PBC) and is driven by the mission to develop reliable, interpretable and steerable AI systems that are safe at the technological frontier. The company has grown from a small research team to over 1,200 employees and as of February 2026 carries a valuation of USD 380 billion following its USD 30 billion Series G round.
Anthropic generates revenue primarily through the sale of access to its AI models via an API with pay-per-token pricing, as well as through consumer products such as the Claude chatbot and the coding tool Claude Code. Enterprise and startup API calls account for the majority of revenue, with over 300,000 business customers representing approximately 80 percent of total sales. Eight of the ten largest companies in the world (Fortune 10) use Claude, and more than 500 customers spend over USD 1 million annually. Claude models are also available through Amazon Bedrock, Google Cloud Vertex AI and Microsoft Foundry. The company has developed Constitutional AI, a method for training models according to ethical principles rather than relying solely on human review, enabling systems that are helpful while limiting harmful behavior. Anthropic's latest model family includes Claude Opus 4.6 for complex reasoning and Claude Sonnet 4.5 for faster and more cost-effective coding and agent workflows.
Anthropic has demonstrated exceptional revenue growth, scaling from near zero to approximately USD 100 million in 2023, USD 1 billion in 2024 and an annualized revenue run rate of USD 19 billion in March 2026. Claude Code, which launched publicly in May 2025, has reached annualized revenue of over USD 2.5 billion and has more than doubled since the start of 2026. The company has secured a total of over USD 48 billion in funding, with investors including Amazon, Google, Salesforce, Microsoft, Nvidia, Lightspeed Venture Partners, ICONIQ, Fidelity and GIC. Anthropic has begun preparations for a potential IPO and has retained the law firm Wilson Sonsini to advise on the process. Recent strategic developments include the acquisition of Bun (December 2025), a multi-year USD 200 million partnership with Snowflake, and expanded collaborations with Microsoft, Salesforce, Deloitte and Cognizant. The company projects positive cash flow by 2028, with an expected gross margin of 77 percent that year.
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