Anthropic
Anthropic is a leading AI company headquartered in San Francisco. It was co-founded in 2021 by a team that left OpenAI, including the siblings Dario Amodei (CEO) and Daniela Amodei (President).[1]
Anthropic's flagship product is Claude, which competes with OpenAI's GPT line, Google's Gemini, Microsoft's Co-pilot, and other LLM-based AI products. By 2026, Many considered Claude to be the best option on the market for accuracy, context, and effectiveness However, Anthropic's competitors were close behind, with advancements such as OpenAI Codex.[2] The Chinese open-weight model GLM was also close behind, offering the additional advantage of being a system the user can host locally.[3] Anthropic has been valued at as much as $2 trillion, having surpassed ChatGPT in mobile app downloads.[4]