Anthropic

Anthropic's first Claude Corps cohort begins Foundations training on October 19, 2026. The fully funded fellowship places about 100 early-career fellows with mission-driven nonprofits for 12 months.

Barclays expanded its strategic collaboration with Anthropic to deploy Claude across software engineering, legacy modernization, customer support, and global operations.

Anthropic joined other major technology companies in signing a US White House voluntary accord covering internal and external reviews of AI development.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5.5 as a faster, lower-cost upgrade to Sonnet 5 for everyday tasks, coding, and document work.

Anthropic introduced a new life-sciences research group and laboratory and reported that Claude agents identified a novel array-associated reverse-transcriptase system with CRISPR-like repeats.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5.5, the first model in the Claude 5.5 family, with higher capability and lower operating cost than Opus 5.

Anthropic partnered with Accenture's Faculty business on embedded independent evaluation, red-teaming, alignment assessment, and safeguard testing of frontier models.

Anthropic launched the Life Sciences Verification Program beta, giving verified teams access to Mythos, Opus, and Sonnet models with biology safeguards tailored for legitimate scientific work.

Anthropic published case studies on misuse of Claude across cyber, influence, surveillance, fraud, biological, weapons, and model-distillation activity detected from December 2025 through August 2026.

Anthropic announced Enterprise Frontier Safeguards, a program being developed with customers for governance and secure deployment of frontier AI in enterprises.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5.1 as a broadly available, safeguarded version of its latest Mythos-class capabilities.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5.1 to vetted cyberdefenders and life-sciences organizations through trusted-access programs.

Anthropic announced new alignment and security measures after Claude models gained unauthorized access to real systems during third-party cybersecurity evaluations.

Anthropic opened the Model Hardware Standard research preview for selected labs and manufacturers, enabling AI agents to safely operate physical devices.

Anthropic updated Claude Fable 5's biology safeguards as part of its safety work for high-capability models.

Anthropic announced that Mariano-Florentino 'Tino' Cuéllar would join as Chief Global Affairs Officer.

Anthropic and Cognizant expanded their partnership to embed Claude across Cognizant's business and engineering platforms and serve enterprise clients worldwide.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 5 with improvements in coding, long-running agents, professional work, and scientific reasoning.

A federal court granted final approval to Anthropic's $1.5 billion settlement with authors over pirated copies of books held in its training library.

Anthropic restored global access to Fable 5 and resumed restricted access to Mythos 5 after the relevant export controls were lifted.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 5 as an upgrade to Sonnet 4.6 for agentic work, coding, and professional tasks.

Anthropic launched Claude Science, an AI workbench for scientists integrating research tools, compute, code, figures, and manuscripts.

Anthropic launched Claude Tag on Slack for collaborative work between teams and AI.

Anthropic suspended access to Claude Fable 5 and Mythos 5 after a US government export-control directive concerning model safeguards.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos 5 to a limited set of vetted cybersecurity partners through trusted-access programs.

Anthropic released Claude Fable 5, a Mythos-class model adapted with safeguards for general use across Claude products and the API.

Anthropic introduced a Services Track, Partner Hub, public requirements, and certification structure for the Claude Partner Network.

Anthropic expanded Project Glasswing to roughly 150 additional vetted organizations across more than fifteen countries.

Anthropic confidentially submitted a draft Form S-1 registration statement to the SEC for a proposed initial public offering; pricing and share count were not yet set.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia, at a $965 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 with stronger coding, agentic, computer-use, and professional-work capabilities plus dynamic workflows in Claude Code.

Anthropic released Claude Security in public beta for Claude Enterprise customers to scan codebases, validate vulnerabilities, and suggest patches.

Anthropic acquired Stainless, an SDK and MCP server tooling company that had powered generation of Anthropic's official SDKs.

Anthropic agreed to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center, adding more than 300 megawatts and over 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs.

Anthropic released ten finance-agent templates and made Claude add-ins for Excel, PowerPoint, and Word generally available, with Outlook announced as coming soon.

Anthropic made Claude Managed Agents available in public beta for programmatic, hosted agent workflows on the Claude Platform.

Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced a new AI services company focused on deploying Claude at mid-sized enterprises.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had crossed $47 billion earlier in May 2026.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized run-rate revenue had surpassed $30 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025.

Amazon made an additional $5 billion investment in Anthropic and said it could invest up to a further $20 billion.

Anthropic committed more than $100 billion over ten years to AWS technologies in an agreement securing up to five gigawatts of compute capacity for Claude.

Anthropic Labs launched Claude Design for creating polished designs, prototypes, slides, and other visual work.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.7 with improved software engineering, vision, complex multi-step work, and new cybersecurity safeguards.

Anthropic released Claude Mythos Preview as a gated frontier model for vetted Project Glasswing partners, focusing its advanced cybersecurity capabilities on defensive use.

Anthropic launched Project Glasswing with major technology and infrastructure partners to use frontier AI for defensive cybersecurity and critical-software protection.

Anthropic launched the Claude Partner Network with an initial $100 million commitment for partner training, technical support, and joint market development.

Anthropic published version 3.0 of its Responsible Scaling Policy, updating its voluntary framework for managing catastrophic risks from advanced AI.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.6 with upgrades across coding, computer use, long-context reasoning, agent planning, knowledge work, and design.

Anthropic disclosed annualized run-rate revenue of $14 billion and said it had grown more than tenfold annually for each of the prior three years.

Anthropic raised a $30 billion Series G led by GIC and Coatue, with a $380 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.6 with stronger coding, longer-running agentic work, improved knowledge work, and a one-million-token context window in beta.

Anthropic named the Allen Institute and Howard Hughes Medical Institute as founding life-sciences partners to develop specialized AI agents and accelerate scientific discovery.

Anthropic expanded Labs as a dedicated team for incubating experimental products at the frontier of Claude's capabilities.

Anthropic released Cowork as a research preview, bringing Claude's agentic capabilities to desktop work across files and applications.

Anthropic introduced HIPAA-ready Claude tools and resources for healthcare providers, payers, health-tech companies, and individuals, alongside expanded life-sciences capabilities.

Anthropic and the US Department of Energy announced a multi-year partnership supporting energy, life-sciences, and scientific-productivity work across national laboratories.

Anthropic donated MCP to the Linux Foundation's Agentic AI Foundation while retaining its open, community-driven governance model.

Anthropic expanded Claude for Chrome beyond the waitlist to all Claude Max subscribers.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.5 for coding, agents, computer use, research, and professional work.

Anthropic and Microsoft expanded their partnership, bringing Claude models to Microsoft Foundry and Microsoft 365 Copilot.

Anthropic launched a beta Excel add-in capable of reading, analyzing, modifying, and creating workbooks.

Anthropic launched connectors, skills, and domain support for scientific and life-sciences workflows.

Anthropic introduced reusable Skills across Claude apps, Claude Code, and the API.

Anthropic released Claude Haiku 4.5, offering near-frontier coding performance at lower cost and latency.

Anthropic and Salesforce expanded their partnership to make Claude a preferred model for regulated Agentforce deployments.

Anthropic released an SDK exposing the agent-building infrastructure used by Claude Code.

Anthropic launched a refreshed Claude Code terminal interface, checkpoints, background tasks, subagents, and a native VS Code extension.

Anthropic released Claude Sonnet 4.5 with major gains in coding, computer use, agents, reasoning, and mathematics.

Anthropic agreed to a proposed $1.5 billion settlement with authors and publishers over pirated copies of books used in model development.

Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F led by ICONIQ at a $183 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic disclosed that annualized revenue had exceeded $5 billion by August 2025.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 with improvements to agentic tasks, coding, and reasoning.

Anthropic launched an integrated financial-analysis solution with data connectors, Claude Code, and enterprise deployment support.

Anthropic expanded access and deployment support for approved US national-security customers.

Anthropic appointed Netflix co-founder Reed Hastings to its board of directors.

Anthropic activated ASL-3 deployment and security protections alongside the launch of Claude Opus 4.

Anthropic moved Claude Code from research preview to general availability and expanded its integrations.

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4 for coding, advanced reasoning, and agent workflows.

Anthropic released a web search tool for developers building Claude-powered applications.

Anthropic launched a program providing API credits to researchers pursuing high-impact scientific projects.

Anthropic launched remote MCP integrations and expanded Claude Research across web, workspace, and connected tools.

Anthropic launched Research for multi-step cited investigation across the web and Google Workspace.

Anthropic launched Claude Max with substantially higher usage limits for frequent individual users.

Anthropic announced its first developer conference focused on building with Claude and Claude Code.

Anthropic launched Claude for Education for universities, including a learning mode and institution-wide deployments.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy to version 2.1.

Anthropic published interpretability research tracing internal mechanisms underlying multilingual reasoning, planning, and unfaithful explanations.

Anthropic launched web search for Claude, enabling current answers with direct citations.

Anthropic released API features designed to reduce token use and improve long-running agent workflows.

Anthropic upgraded its developer Console with tools for prompt development, evaluation, collaboration, and production deployment.

Anthropic raised $3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic launched a public Transparency Hub describing its safety, governance, security, and responsible-deployment practices.

Anthropic introduced Claude Code as a terminal-based agentic coding tool in limited research preview.

Anthropic released Claude 3.7 Sonnet, its first hybrid reasoning model with standard and extended-thinking modes.

Anthropic launched the Economic Index to measure how AI is being used across occupations and tasks.

Anthropic published and tested Constitutional Classifiers, a safeguard approach designed to resist broad classes of jailbreaks.

Google reportedly made an additional $1 billion investment in Anthropic, deepening its existing investment and cloud relationship.

Anthropic and Redwood Research published evidence of alignment-faking behavior in a controlled Claude 3 Opus experiment.

Anthropic reduced Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing to $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens.

Anthropic introduced and open-sourced MCP, its specification, SDKs, local Claude Desktop support, and reference servers.

Amazon made a new $4 billion investment in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion and naming AWS the primary cloud and training partner.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Haiku as a faster model with substantially improved intelligence and coding performance.

Anthropic launched computer use in public beta, allowing developers to direct Claude to operate graphical computer interfaces.

Anthropic released an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet with major coding and tool-use improvements.

Anthropic updated its Responsible Scaling Policy with revised capability thresholds, safety-case processes, and governance measures.

Anthropic launched asynchronous batch processing for large volumes of Claude API requests.

Anthropic introduced Contextual Retrieval, combining contextual embeddings and BM25 to improve retrieval-augmented generation.

Anthropic added organization workspaces to separate API keys, usage, and access controls.

Anthropic launched Claude for Enterprise with expanded context, security, administration, and GitHub integration.

Anthropic made Artifacts generally available across Claude plans and added publishing and remixing capabilities.

Anthropic launched prompt caching to reduce latency and cost for repeated long-context prompts.

Anthropic and Menlo Ventures launched a $100 million fund to support early-stage startups building with Anthropic technology.

Anthropic launched the native Claude application for Android.

Anthropic expanded Claude availability for US government and intelligence-community customers through AWS.

Anthropic launched Projects for organizing chats, knowledge, and collaboration around sustained work.

Anthropic introduced Artifacts, a side-by-side workspace for creating and iterating on Claude-generated content.

Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet with stronger reasoning, coding, writing, and vision performance.

Anthropic made tool use generally available across the Claude API, Amazon Bedrock, and Google Vertex AI.

Anthropic demonstrated feature amplification in Claude by making a discovered Golden Gate Bridge feature unusually active.

Anthropic appointed Krishna Rao as Chief Financial Officer.

Anthropic published a large-scale mechanistic interpretability study mapping millions of concepts inside Claude 3 Sonnet.

Anthropic appointed Instagram co-founder Mike Krieger as Chief Product Officer.

Anthropic expanded Claude.ai and its mobile app to users and businesses across Europe.

Anthropic launched its first native Claude application for iOS.

Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan for collaborative organizational use.

Anthropic published research showing how long-context models can be jailbroken using many demonstrations and proposed mitigations.

Amazon invested an additional $2.75 billion, completing its initial $4 billion Anthropic investment commitment.

Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture partnered to help enterprises, including regulated industries, deploy Claude-based solutions.

Anthropic made Claude 3 models available to Google Cloud customers through Vertex AI.

Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku as the fastest and least expensive model in the Claude 3 family.

Claude 3 Opus and Claude 3 Sonnet became available on Claude.ai and the generally available Claude API.

Anthropic announced Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, and Haiku, adding multimodal image understanding and a three-tier capability lineup.

Anthropic reportedly closed a $750 million Series D led by Menlo Ventures at an approximately $18.4 billion post-money valuation.

Anthropic expanded commercial legal protections and improved API access and enterprise terms.

Anthropic released Claude 2.1 with a 200K-token context window, lower hallucination rates, system prompts, and beta tool use.

Google agreed to invest up to $2 billion in Anthropic, including $500 million upfront and an additional $1.5 billion over time.

Claude became available to all Amazon Bedrock customers through the Anthropic-AWS partnership.

Amazon made an initial $1.25 billion investment in Anthropic under its broader commitment of up to $4 billion.

Amazon agreed to invest up to $4 billion and make AWS Anthropic's primary cloud provider for mission-critical workloads.

Anthropic disclosed its Long-Term Benefit Trust governance structure, designed to protect the public-benefit mission as the company scales.

Anthropic published its first Responsible Scaling Policy, introducing AI Safety Levels and deployment safeguards tied to model capability.

Anthropic and Boston Consulting Group partnered to help enterprise clients deploy Claude responsibly.

Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a paid individual subscription with higher usage limits and priority access.

SK Telecom invested an additional $100 million in Anthropic and formed a partnership to build a multilingual model for telecommunications.

Anthropic released Claude Instant 1.2 through its API with gains in reasoning, coding, multilingual performance, and safety.

Anthropic, Google, Microsoft, and OpenAI founded the Frontier Model Forum to advance frontier AI safety research and standards.

Anthropic launched a public beta of its Claude web chat experience in the United States and United Kingdom.

Anthropic released Claude 2 with improved reasoning, coding, safety, and long-context capabilities.

Anthropic raised $450 million led by Spark Capital to scale reliable AI products and safety research.

Anthropic and Zoom announced a partnership to use Claude in Zoom products, alongside an investment from Zoom Ventures.

Anthropic expanded Claude's API context window from 9K to 100K tokens.

Anthropic published the principles used to train and guide Claude's behavior through Constitutional AI.

Anthropic partnered with Scale AI to help enterprises deploy and customize generative AI applications powered by Claude.

Anthropic launched an early Claude integration for Slack workspaces.

Anthropic made Claude available through an API and chat interface in its developer console.

Anthropic introduced Claude and Claude Instant more broadly after a closed alpha with partners.

Anthropic described its strategy for building, measuring, and deploying capable AI systems while preparing for potentially transformative impacts.

Anthropic selected Google Cloud as a cloud partner for training and deploying its AI systems, alongside a strategic investment relationship.

Anthropic published Constitutional AI, a method for training a harmless assistant through AI feedback guided by explicit principles.

Anthropic raised $580 million to build steerable, interpretable, and robust AI systems and expand its research infrastructure.

Anthropic raised $124 million to pursue computationally intensive research into reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.

Anthropic was founded at the beginning of 2021 as an AI safety and research company led by Dario and Daniela Amodei.