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Anthropic

Anthropic is the San Francisco company behind the Claude family of models, Claude Code and the Claude developer platform. It is organized as a public benefit corporation and presents AI safety research as central to its business, a claim this page tracks against what it actually ships and discloses.

81 stories · updated Oct 13

Key facts

Checked Oct 8
First public announcement
May 28, 2021 ($124M funding round)
MCP announced
November 25, 2024
MCP donated to Agentic AI Foundation (Linux Foundation)
December 9, 2025

Latest on Anthropic

Industry · NewsAmazon in talks to buy Decart for about $7 billion: what the AI startup does and why AWS wants itThe Wall Street Journal reported on October 11, 2026 that Amazon is in talks to acquire Decart for around $7 billion. Neither company has confirmed it. Decart is best known for real-time video world models, but the likely draw for AWS is its software for running AI efficiently across Nvidia, Google and Amazon chips.·4 min readIndustry · NewsAnthropic's SpaceX compute deal: what's confirmed about the $1.25 billion a month, and what's only reportedA Wall Street Journal profile of co-founder Tom Brown put Anthropic's SpaceX compute deal back in the news. SpaceX's own IPO filing confirms $1.25 billion a month through May 2029, cancellable on 90 days' notice. Here's what each source actually supports.·5 min readIndustry · AnalysisAnthropic vs OpenAI revenue: why gross vs net accounting makes the run-rate headlines hard to compareBloomberg reported on October 9, 2026 that Anthropic counts the gross value of some Claude sales through cloud partners, while OpenAI books only its share. What gross and net revenue mean, and how to read the $50 billion, $65 billion and $70 billion figures.·7 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #2: Sonnet 5.5, OpenAI DevDay and a gated Gemini 4September 28 – October 4, 2026: two $2/$10 workhorse models, OpenAI's always-on dots, Google's cyber-first Gemini 4 Argon, and Copilot learns to use your desktop.·6 min readAgents · NewsThe Week in AI #1: Opus 5.5, GPT-6 Sol and Grok 4.7 land within 48 hoursSeptember 21–27, 2026: three new coding-focused frontier models, Cursor's deploy-watching bots, and a sandbox for GitHub Copilot's desktop app.·4 min readIndustry · NewsOpenAI reportedly seeks $30 billion at a $1.4 trillion valuation as it deepens Atlassian dealThe funding talks are unconfirmed and OpenAI's IPO has slipped to 2027. The Atlassian expansion, announced October 6, is the part OpenAI has put in writing.·4 min readPolicy · NewsChatGPT starts watermarking text in the EU as the AI Act's marking deadline approachesOpenAI's October 5 rollout is the most visible sign yet of the AI Act's content-marking rule. Systems already on the market have until December 2 to comply.·5 min readModels · AnalysisWhat the Claude Opus 5.5 system card actually saysAnthropic's system card for Opus 5.5 runs past 220 pages. What it says on bio and cyber risk, sandbox escapes, prompt injection and alignment, and what it leaves out.·7 min readIndustry · AnalysisToken pricing isn't the story: what the official price pages actually tell youAnthropic and OpenAI now charge identical sticker prices at two tiers. Your bill is decided by tokenizers, thinking tokens, caching, long-context surcharges and tool fees.·8 min readHardware · AnalysisThe gigawatt datacenter race: what's announced, what's running, and what's holding it backAI labs and clouds have announced tens of gigawatts of compute. Primary sources show far less of it running. A sourced table and an honest look at the limits.·8 min read

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