Anthropic, a U.S.-based artificial intelligence (AI) startup founded in 2021, focuses on researching and developing AI systems with an emphasis on safety at the cutting edge of technology. Their mission is to study and understand the safety properties of advanced AI systems to ensure their safe and reliable deployment for public use. Anthropic's flagship product is a family of large language models (LLMs) known as Claude, designed to compete with OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini.