Anthropic shifted from safety research to commercial AI to fund model development
Anthropic, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers including Dario Amodei, began as a safety-first research company. The article explains that commercialization became necessary because developing frontier models requires massive compute spending, and safety research needs access to those same cutting-edge models. The company launched Claude in March 2023, emphasizing steerability and…
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- Anthropic founded in 2021 by ex-OpenAI staff including Dario Amodei
- Claude launched March 2023 with API for enterprise embedding
- Claude Code released February 2025 to automate coding tasks end-to-end
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Why did Anthropic change from a 'research company' to a giant AI corporation? The path to the birth and commercialization of Claude
note.com · 13 October 2026
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