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Updates
October 15, 2025: Anthropic Claude launches Haiku -- link here.
May 16, 2025: link here.
From the linked article:
Earlier this week, Anthropic received a $2.5 billion, five-year revolving credit line to amp up its liquidity in an ever-expanding — and expensive — competition in the artificial intelligence industry.
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI research executives, launched its Claude chatbot in March 2023.
The company closed its latest funding round in March at a $61.5 billion valuation, and the new credit facility adds to that. The company said it plans to use it to strengthen its balance sheet and invest as it scales rapidly.
Annualized revenue reached $2 billion in the first quarter, the company confirmed, more than doubling from a $1 billion rate in the prior period.
Revenue chief Kate Jensen said that the number of customers spending more than $100,000 annually with Anthropic jumped eightfold from a year ago.
Customers were know to include; eightfold from the three below would be in excess of 24?
- AWS
- Palantir: particularly noteworthy.
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Huge, new, private (will eventually go public) AI startup company, with huge partnership with Amazon. Palantir is perhaps equally important as AWS but whereas AWS is seen as commercial retail, Palantir is quickly become quasi-US-government tech backbone. Google holds large, but relatively smaller position, perhaps to keep a seat at the table.
Wiki.
- full name: Anthropic PBC
- AI startup company
- has developed a family of large language models named Claude
- competes with:
- OpenAi's ChatGPT
- Google's Gemini
- Material Three Expressive (announced May 16, 2025)
- Apple's Siri
- xAI's Grok
- Saudi's Humain
- Meta: Meta AI (Llama)
- founded by seven former members of OpenAI, 2021
- including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei
- early funding:
- Amazon, $4 billion, September, 2023
- to date (May, 2025) Amazon said to have committed $8 billion to Anthropic
- Anthropic would use AWS as its primary cloud provider
- Anthropic would make its AI models available to AWS customers
- Google, $2 billion, October, 2023
- much more since then, see link
- 2024: notable new employees from OpenAI moved over to Anthropic
- long list of partnerships; of note:
In November 2024, Palantir announced a partnership with Anthropic and Amazon Web Services to provide U.S. intelligence and defense agencies access to Claude 3 and 3.5.
According to Palantir, this was the first time that Claude would be used in "classified environments".
Language models:
- May, 2025: link here.
- Claude
- Opus 4
- Sonnet 4
- March, 2024: Claude 3 with three language models, largest to smallest:
- Opus: largest model; outperformed OpenAI's GPT-4 and GPT-3.5 and Google's Gemini Ultra
- Sonnet: medium
- Haiku: small
