What is Anthropic
The AI company that makes Claude. Founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers and based in San Francisco.
In plain terms
Anthropic trains the Claude family of language models and builds two products on them: the Claude chat assistant and Claude Code, a coding agent that works in the terminal. Developers build on Anthropic through a paid API, the same shape as building on OpenAI. The company pairs its products with a heavy focus on AI safety research.
What it tells you about a developer
Anthropic experience reads the same as OpenAI experience: the developer has built software around a large language model, and those skills move freely between the major model providers.
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