AI safety company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including Dario and Daniela Amodei, best known for the Claude family of models. Positioned as the "safety-first" frontier lab, Anthropic has become one of the two commercially dominant LLM providers alongside OpenAI. For Karthik, Anthropic matters directly: Claude powers Claude Code (his primary development harness) and is a candidate model for SupportWire's underlying agent layer.
Related
- ChatGPT — the competing product
- OpenAI — the parent that Anthropic's founders left
- SupportWire — downstream consumer