
Anthropic, PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) public benefit corporation headquartered in San Francisco, California. Its flagship product is Claude, a series of proprietary large language models (LLMs). In January 2021, Anthropic was founded by former members of OpenAI over disagreements on AI safety, including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei, who are president and CEO, respectively. The company is privately held but plans an initial public offering in November 2026.…
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Developers celebrate Claude Code for its exceptional command-line autonomy, precise multi-turn bug hunting, and rigorous chain-of-thought code generation, with high API token consumption remaining the chief trade-off.
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