Claude Publicly Launched by Anthropic
March 14, 2023 · 21st Century
On March 14, 2023 — the same day OpenAI released GPT-4 — Anthropic publicly launched Claude 1.0, its first commercial large language model. Founded in 2021 by Dario Amodei, Daniela Amodei, and five other former OpenAI researchers who departed over safety concerns, Anthropic built Claude around Constitutional AI, a training approach designed to make models more honest, harmless, and helpful. Claude's launch introduced a major safety-focused competitor into the frontier AI market, establishing a distinct institutional position that AI safety and capability need not be in opposition.
Key Figures
Ilya SutskeverDario AmodeiDaniela Amodei
Locations
OpenAI Headquarters
Topics
Artificial IntelligenceUSAtechnologyinnovationnatural language processingAI safetyethics
Connected Events — 3 Connections
Safety-focused alternative to capabilities race demonstrated by ChatGPT Launched
Launched same day as rival model — establishing AI safety as competing institutional framework to GPT-4 Released — Frontier AI Race Begins
Direct consequence of safety principles established at Pentagon Designates Anthropic a Supply Chain Risk
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