Anthropic Company Overview

Anthropic is a silicon valley startup and AI company that develops and sells LLM models and LLM-based products and services. They also developed Model Context Protocol for passing information between models.

Key Information

  • Founded as a competitor to OpenAI
  • Developed the Claude model series, including Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku
  • Known for safety-focused AI development approaches
  • Created the Model Context Protocol (MCP) standard

Relationship to Other Models

Anthropic are one of the earliest competitors to OpenAI and their Anthropic Claude Sonnet and Opus series models were early competitors to GPT-4.