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Anthropic
The American lab behind the Claude models, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI members, has risen to become a global AI leader by focusing on safety and reliability, with particular success among developers.
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Its founders, siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, left OpenAI over disagreements about safety before becoming its main rival.
Alyriaz articles that mention it
- Claude Haiku 5.5: ten times cheaper than its predecessor
Anthropic launches Claude Haiku 5.5, ten times cheaper than Haiku 4.5 for most requests, at the price of GPT-6 Luna. What it is really worth.
- Anthropic: half of sales go through its rivals
According to Reuters, 47% of Anthropic's sales in 2025 went through Amazon and Google, which are at once its investors, its suppliers and its competitors.
- Claude has broken a theoretical physics record
One sentence, one week, 96 processors: Claude pushed a particle physics record one step further. And the record holder himself checked it.
- Claude Sonnet 5.5: nearly Opus, at half the price
Across 44 professions, Claude Sonnet 5.5 nearly matches Opus 5.5 at half the price. What it changes for you, and where the top model keeps its edge.
- Claude Opus 5.5: flagship-level performance for 60% less
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 5.5, claimed to be on a par with Fable 5.1 at a far lower cost. We analyse the figures, the comparison with GPT-6 Astra, and the tension with the call for a slowdown.
- Claude runs 26% of the research that builds Claude
Anthropic has published figures on the share of its own research driven by its models: 26% in August against less than 1% in February. We analyse what this figure measures and what it implies.
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