Anthropic PBC is an American artificial-intelligence safety and research company founded in 2021 by former [[🏦 OpenAI|OpenAI]] members—including siblings [[😊 Dario Amodei|Dario Amodei]] and [[Daniela Amodei]] along with Jared Kaplan, Jack Clark, and Ben Mann—and is headquartered in [[San Francisco]], California. The firm develops the “Claude” family of large language models as alternatives to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, and its stated mission is to study [[AI safety]] properties at the technological frontier so it can deploy models that are helpful, harmless, and honest. Anthropic has attracted major backing from tech giants: in September 2023 [[🏦 Amazon ($AMZN)|Amazon]] committed up to $4 billion in funding, followed by a $2 billion investment from [[🏦 Alphabet ($GOOGL, $GOOG)|Google]] in October 2023. Legally structured as a private Public-Benefit Corporation (PBC), the company balances financial goals with a charter to advance the long-term public good. Research initiatives (such as Constitutional AI), strategic partnerships (e.g., with AWS and Palantir on U.S. defense projects), its public-benefit trust governance, and legal challenges including a 2023 copyright-infringement lawsuit by major music publishers.