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Claude

Also written: Claude 3 Opus, Sonnet, Haiku

Claude is a family of large language models developed by Anthropic, known for its focus on helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness.

In plain terms

Claude is an AI chatbot developed by Anthropic. Think of it as a conversational partner that can answer questions, write text, and help with various tasks.

Anthropic designed Claude with safety in mind, aiming for it to be helpful, honest, and harmless. You can try interacting with Claude by asking it to write a poem, explain a complex topic, or summarize a long document.

The expert version

Claude is a family of large language models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic. These models are built using a transformer architecture and are trained on vast amounts of text data. Anthropic emphasizes constitutional AI, a training methodology designed to align LLM behavior with a set of principles, aiming for helpfulness, honesty, and harmlessness.

Why it matters now

Claude is frequently mentioned as a benchmark or competitor in the rapidly evolving AI landscape. Recent news highlights its performance relative to other leading models like those from xAI and OpenAI, and its integration into new tools and features.

Where it shows up 6 items, newest first
How each company uses it
Anthropic Claude
Claude is Anthropic's AI assistant.
OpenAI ChatGPT
OpenAI's news often includes updates on competing models like Claude.
xAI Grok
xAI's Grok is compared to Claude in terms of performance and price.
Related terms

AnthropicConstitutional AILarge Language ModelTransformer ArchitectureAI SafetyGPT

Often confused with
Claude Shannon
Claude Shannon was a pioneering mathematician and electrical eng
Origin

Claude is the name given to a family of large language models developed by Anthropic, a company founded by former OpenAI researchers. The name itself does not have a specific technical origin beyond being the chosen brand name. Source ↗

Try this about 5 minutes

Ask Claude to write a short story about a robot who discovers music. This will demonstrate its creative writing abilities. Then, ask it to explain the concept of photosynthesis in simple terms to see how it handles factual explanations.

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The Playbook: reusable how-tos, prompts, configs and tips pulled out of the news.

Questions people ask

Who made Claude?
Claude was developed by Anthropic, an AI safety and research company.
What can Claude do?
Claude can engage in conversations, answer questions, write different kinds of creative content, summarize text, and assist with coding tasks.
Is Claude safe to use?
Anthropic designed Claude with a strong emphasis on safety, aiming for it to be helpful, honest, and harmless through its training methods.

First seen on Subvolts Sep 10, 2024. Updated Oct 5, 2026. Written by an AI model from the items above and reviewed against them weekly; report an error.