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AI safety company founded by former OpenAI employees. Created Claude AI. Despite "safety" branding, still trains on scraped data and competes with human creators.

Website

https://anthropic.com

CEO

Dario Amodei

Founded

2021

Valuation

$18B

> Social Media

Twitter/X

@AnthropicAI

> Founders

Dario AmodeiDaniela Amodei

> Products & Services

ClaudeClaude API

> Funding

Total: $7.3B

Latest Round: $4B from Amazon

Investors:

  • Amazon
  • Google
  • Salesforce

> Controversies

Despite "AI safety" messaging, still relies on data scraping without consent.[1][2]

Controversy 1 Sources:

  1. Anthropic Accused of Aggressive Data Scraping(July 2024)
  2. Reddit Sues Anthropic Over AI Scraping(June 2025)

Funded by Amazon ($4B) and Google ($3B+), two of the largest tech companies.[3][4]

Controversy 2 Sources:

  1. Amazon Pours Additional $2.75 Billion into AI Startup Anthropic(March 2024)
  2. Google Agrees to New $1 Billion Investment in Anthropic(January 2025)

Creates tools that compete with and replace human writers and researchers.[5][6][7]

Controversy 3 Sources:

  1. Exclusive: AI's ability to displace jobs is advancing quickly, Anthropic CEO says(September 2025)
  2. Anthropic CEO warns of a 25% chance that AI could threaten job losses and security risks(September 2025)
  3. Anthropic report: AI software engineers automation augmentation(2024)

> Direct Action

Hunger Strike at Anthropic - Pause AI DevelopmentprotestActive

Activists Guido Reichstadter and Michael Trazzi on hunger strikes calling for immediate halt to advanced AI development due to existential risks

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Urge Anthropic to Keep Claude 3.7 AccessiblepetitionActive

Petition to preserve Claude 3.7 version, emphasizing its value to writers, developers, and educators

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> Union & Labor

Employee Count

500 employees

Union Status

✗ Non-Union

Organizing Efforts

Tech workers organizing resources available

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> Office Locations

HQMap

500 Howard Street, San Francisco, CA, USA

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London, United Kingdom

Near Liverpool Street

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Dublin, Ireland

Main EU establishment

officeMap

Zurich, Switzerland

AI research and safety focus

> Data Centers

> Amazon Madison Mega Site

Project Rainier #speculative

speculative

Location

Amazon Data Services Inc, Madison Mega Site Nissan Parkway and Highway 22 Canton, Mississippi Madison County

32°35'25"N, 90°05'35"W

H100 Equiv

214.3K

Power

341 MW

Cost

$10.89B

Owner

Amazon

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

> Amazon Ridgeland

Project Rainier #speculative

speculative

Location

1626 County Line Road Ridgeland, Mississippi

32°24'00"N, 90°12'12"W

Owner

Amazon

Energy

Entergy

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

> Anthropic-Amazon New Carlisle

Project Rainier #confident

confident

Location

55001 Larrison Blvd, New Carlisle, IN 46552

41°41'36"N, 86°27'39"W

H100 Equiv

471.6K

Power

751 MW

Cost

$23.97B

Owner

Amazon

Data Center Sources Sources:

  1. Epoch AI, 'Frontier Data Centers'. Published online at epoch.ai. Retrieved from 'https://epoch.ai/data/data-centers' [online resource]. Accessed 5 Jan 2026.(2026-01-05)

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