Company recordAnthropic
Anthropic is an artificial intelligence company that develops large language models and AI systems for business and research use.
- Founded: 2021
- Headquarters: San Francisco, United States
- Industry: Agentic AI
- Website: https://www.anthropic.com/
Timeline
Meta and Anthropic are in early-stage discussions for Meta to lease AI computing capacity to Anthropic in a deal reportedly worth up to $10 billion over two years, according to Reuters. Anthropic proposed the arrangement in June, and would pay Meta in monthly instalments, though the terms remain subject to change and either company could exit early. The talks are complicated by Meta's lack of an existing business selling computing power.
Anthropic has received final approval for a $1.5 billion copyright settlement. The settlement resolves one case but does not address the broader question of whether copyrighted works can be used to train AI models.
Anthropic has created a tool called the Jacobian lens (J-lens) that uncovers a hidden area inside Claude Opus 4.6 named J-space, which contains words related to what the model is likely to produce in the near future. The technique builds on previous mechanistic interpretability research and reveals that what language models actually do can differ from what they claim to be doing. Anthropic shared its results in a paper this week and partnered with Neuronpedia to provide a public demo.