Founded: 2021
Founders: Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei
Industry: AI Safety
Revenue: ~$200M ARR
Valuation: $18.4B
Anthropic is building AI systems that are safe, beneficial, and understandable. Their Constitutional AI approach is particularly compelling - instead of just training models to be helpful, they’re training them to follow a set of principles and to be honest about their limitations.
The company was founded by former OpenAI researchers who left to focus specifically on AI safety. They’ve raised significant funding while maintaining a clear focus on responsible AI development.
Their Claude AI assistant demonstrates thoughtful approaches to AI alignment - it’s helpful but also transparent about what it doesn’t know and careful about potentially harmful requests.