Releases

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.