Anthropic
is an American safety and research company founded in 2021 by former employees, including Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. Structured as a Delaware public benefit corporation (PBC), it focuses on developing reliable, interpretable, and steerable . The company is known for creating the family of models and developing , its specific training approach that uses an explicit set of principles to guide and reduce harmful outputs, rather than originating the broader idea of principle-guided alignment. A major competitor in , Anthropic has secured multibillion-dollar backing to support development and research. announced staged investment commitments totaling $8 billion by late 2024, while has invested billions, with its broader support also including computing commitments.
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Ethics, safety & society
Moving as fast as the field, and easier to overlook
- Explainable AI
- Interpretability
- Model Card
- AI Audit
- Algorithmic Bias
- Disparate Impact
- Digital Divide
- WCAG (Web Content Accessibility Guidelines)
- AI Alignment
- Red Teaming
- EU AI Act
- NIST AI RMF (AI Risk Management Framework)
- Frontier Model
- Deepfake
- Content Credentials
- AI Watermarking
- Job Displacement
- Prompt Injection
- Data Poisoning
- Differential Privacy
- GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation)
- Zero-Day
- End-to-End Encryption
- Data Broker
Infrastructure, markets & the economy
The compute, power and capital behind the boom