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Anthropic

AI safety company behind Claude. OpenAI's main competitor.

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Description

AI safety company behind Claude. OpenAI's main competitor.

Estimated Company Size

501 - 1000 employees

Funding Rounds

Series E$3.5B

2025

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Founded Date

January 1, 2021

Description

Anthropic builds AI with a focus on safety and reliability. Claude is their flagship model, competing with GPT-4. Raised $7.3B total including $4B from Amazon. Valued at $18B+.

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Xcode moves into agentic coding with deeper OpenAI and Anthropic integrations

Xcode 26.3 offers agentic coding capabilities with Anthropic's Claude Agent and OpenAI's Codex.

Feb 3, 2026โ€ขtechcrunch

Anthropic brings agentic plug-ins to Cowork

The company says you can use plug-ins to "tell Claude how you like work done, which tools and data to pull from, how to handle critical workflows, and what slash commands to expose so your team gets more consistent outcomes."

Jan 30, 2026โ€ขtechcrunch

Music publishers sue Anthropic for $3B over 'flagrant piracy' of 20,000 works

Originally, these music publishers had filed a lawsuit against Anthropic over its use of about 500 copyrighted works.

Jan 29, 2026โ€ขtechcrunch

Claude Code costs up to $200 a month. Goose does the same thing for free.

The artificial intelligence coding revolution comes with a catch: it's expensive.Claude Code, Anthropic's terminal-based AI agent that can write, debug, and deploy code autonomously, has captured the imagination of software developers worldwide. But its pricing โ€” ranging from $20 to $200 per month depending on usage โ€” has sparked a growing rebellion among the very programmers it aims to serve.Now, a free alternative is gaining traction. Goose, an open-source AI agent developed by Block

Jan 19, 2026โ€ขventurebeat

Salesforce rolls out new Slackbot AI agent as it battles Microsoft and Google in workplace AI

Salesforce on Tuesday launched an entirely rebuilt version of Slackbot, the company's workplace assistant, transforming it from a simple notification tool into what executives describe as a fully powered AI agent capable of searching enterprise data, drafting documents, and taking action on behalf of employees.The new Slackbot, now generally available to Business+ and Enterprise+ customers, is Salesforce's most aggressive move yet to position Slack at the center of the emerging "agenti

Jan 13, 2026โ€ขventurebeat

Anthropic launches Cowork, a Claude Desktop agent that works in your files โ€” no coding required

Anthropic released Cowork on Monday, a new AI agent capability that extends the power of its wildly successful Claude Code tool to non-technical users โ€” and according to company insiders, the team built the entire feature in approximately a week and a half, largely using Claude Code itself.The launch marks a major inflection point in the race to deliver practical AI agents to mainstream users, positioning Anthropic to compete not just with OpenAI and Google in conversational AI, but with Microso

Jan 12, 2026โ€ขventurebeat

Nous Research's NousCoder-14B is an open-source coding model landing right in the Claude Code moment

Nous Research, the open-source artificial intelligence startup backed by crypto venture firm Paradigm, released a new competitive programming model on Monday that it says matches or exceeds several larger proprietary systems โ€” trained in just four days using 48 of Nvidia's latest B200 graphics processors.The model, called NousCoder-14B, is another entry in a crowded field of AI coding assistants, but arrives at a particularly charged moment: Claude Code, the agentic programming tool from ri

Jan 7, 2026โ€ขventurebeat

The creator of Claude Code just revealed his workflow, and developers are losing their minds

When the creator of the world's most advanced coding agent speaks, Silicon Valley doesn't just listen โ€” it takes notes.For the past week, the engineering community has been dissecting a thread on X from Boris Cherny, the creator and head of Claude Code at Anthropic. What began as a casual sharing of his personal terminal setup has spiraled into a viral manifesto on the future of software development, with industry insiders calling it a watershed moment for the startup."If you're n

Jan 5, 2026โ€ขventurebeat

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