Claude is owned by Anthropic, an American artificial intelligence startup company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees including siblings Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei. Anthropic operates as a public benefit corporation focused on AI safety and responsible development, and Claude is the name of their family of large language models. Significant investments in Anthropic have been made by major technology companies such as Amazon and Google, with Amazon being a major minority stakeholder using Anthropic's AI models on AWS. As of 2025, Anthropic is one of the most valuable private companies globally.