Anthropic is an AI safety and research company founded in 2021, structured as a Public Benefit Corporation with a formal mission to develop advanced AI responsibly for the long-term benefit of humanity. The company builds reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems, and is best known for its Claude family of large language models.
Technical work at Anthropic spans AI safety, interpretability, reinforcement learning from human feedback, and policy analysis. The company's Claude models are designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless, reflecting its focus on aligning AI systems with human values.
Anthropic collaborates across civil society, government, academia, and industry, positioning itself at the intersection of frontier AI research and the governance frameworks needed to manage increasingly capable systems.
