What Anthropic does
Anthropic is an AI safety and research company building frontier language models and an “enterprise-grade” Claude platform aimed at delivering reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems. The company describes safety as a science, coupling frontier research (including interpretability and alignment approaches) with product deployment via partnerships and model/product offerings.
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Its commercial footprint centers on Claude for conversational and work-assistance tasks, Claude Code for agentic coding workflows, and Claude Cowork for extending coding-style agent capabilities to broader desktop knowledge-work tasks, alongside enterprise-focused offerings and an API/platform that developers integrate into applications. Anthropic’s recent product and platform direction emphasizes agentic tooling and standardized connectivity for tools and data (including Model Context Protocol), as well as safety work exposed through mechanisms like evaluations, safeguards, and disclosures about model deployment practices (e.g., watermarking changes). As of 2026, Anthropic appears positioned as a major enterprise and developer model/provider, scaling adoption alongside large compute and infrastructure partnerships and repeated very large late-stage fundraises. The company’s governance structure is described as a Public Benefit Corporation with a Long-Term Benefit Trust that plays an explicit role in board selection/removal over time, reflecting its stated long-term orientation on AI’s risks and benefits.