From AI Future Debate to $965 Billion Business: The Story of Claude
The story of Anthropic and its Claude model began with internal disagreements at OpenAI over AI safety. Founded by Dario and Daniela Amodei, the company attracted early investment from Sam Bankman-Fried of FTX, then built a $965 billion business. Claude evolved from an experimental model to a corporate platform including Claude Code and Cowork, with backing from Amazon and Google.
OpenAI
Anthropic
Amazon/AWS
Google/DeepMind


