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CNBC
10-06-2025
- Business
- CNBC
4. Anthropic
Founders: Dario Amodei (CEO), Daniela Amodei, Chris Olah, Jack Clark, Jared Kaplan, Sam McCandlish, Tom BrownLaunched: 2021Headquarters: San FranciscoFunding: N/AValuation: $61.5 billionKey Technologies: Artificial intelligenceIndustry: Enterprise technologyPrevious appearances on Disruptor 50 list: 1 (No. 7 in 2024) If OpenAI's explosive growth is best measured by consumer adoption, its rival Anthropic is the gold standard for enterprise use of large language models. That is not to say OpenAI isn't making gains in enterprise deals, and Anthropic is popular with millions of individuals for gen AI tasks. But its AI-as-a-service model, in particular for coding tasks where generative AI is making huge leaps in ability, has led the Alphabet- and Amazon-backed startup to exponentially grow its business-to-business deals, and revenue. Anthropic just hit $3 billion in annualized revenue, an increase in under one year from the $1 billion revenue pace it was on last December, with many customers paying as much as $100,000. The company told CNBC that annual revenue from code generation and software development rose by 10x in the last three months of 2024. From March to May 2025 alone, annual recurring revenue grew by $1 billion. "We've looked at the IPOs of over 200 public software companies, and this growth rate has never happened," Meritech General Partner Alex Clayton recently told CNBC. The growth has pushed up the firm's valuation, and its access to various forms of capital. In mid-May, it received a $2.5 billion credit line. That followed a $3.5 billion funding round in March that valued the company – which was founded by former OpenAI executives and first debuted its Claude chatbot in 2023 – at $61.5 billion. Companies that use Anthropic AI include top coding startups, including GitLab and Cursor, as well as big names across the market, from Intuit to Pfizer, Salesforce, Asana, DoorDash and fellow disruptor Canva. Claude's biggest moment yet came in May, when Anthropic launched two models, called Claude Opus 4 and Claude Sonnet 4, that can work for seven-consecutive hours without performance degradation, a milestone in AI productivity. "I do a lot of writing with Claude, and I think prior to Opus 4 and Sonnet 4, I was mostly using the models as a thinking partner, but still doing most of the writing myself," Mike Krieger, Anthropic's chief product officer, recently told CNBC. "And they've crossed this threshold where now most of my writing is actually ... Opus mostly, and it now is unrecognizable from my writing." Last October, it launched its "agentic AI" rival to offerings from Meta and OpenAI's Operator, called Computer Use, with Claude effectively being able to view a computer monitor, use buttons, type, search the internet and execute real-time tasks. Those types of capabilities are being adopted by companies including PayPal, Square, Plaid, Atlassian and Asana. Anthropic has been pouring its R&D dollars into more complex tasks for business use cases, shifting away from some focus on B2B and consumer chatbot technology earlier in its history. Anthropic has not been free of AI controversy — Reddit recently sued the company, alleging unauthorized use of content — and its leadership has not shied away from sensitive AI debates, whether the issue is the threat to human jobs or geopolitics. Its CEO Dario Amodei recently predicted that AI could wipe out as much as 50% of entry-level office jobs. The company has also taken a vocal stance on the trade war with China and export controls that the U.S. government has placed on chips, after a year marked by the emergence of China's DeepSeek, a direct threat to both Anthropic and OpenAI's lead in the AI race. Anthropic has argued for tighter export controls, referencing DeepSeek's rise, and sparked a war of words with chip giant Nvidia when it claimed in a blog post that Chinese smugglers hide AI chips in "prosthetic baby bumps" and "packed alongside live lobsters."
Euronews
16-04-2025
- Business
- Euronews
Anthropic's AI chatbot Claude says it can help get work done faster by integrating Google Workspace
ADVERTISEMENT Anthropic's artificial intelligence (AI) chatbot Claude is integrating with Google Workspace, promising to help professionals free up time and get work done faster. The San-Francisco-based company announced on Tuesday that users will no longer have to dig through their emails on Gmail, calendar, or documents, as there will be advanced document search capabilities, Anthropic said. As well as this streamlined approach to searching through your Google Workspace without having to specify exactly which file you require, Claude will also be able to pull up meeting notes and past correspondence and search other relevant documents for additional context. Anthropic also announced a tool called Research that can search across both your internal work context and the web. Related OpenAI rival Anthropic launches chatbot Claude in Europe to give users more choice Shift towards agentic AI The announcements mark the company's direction towards agentic AI, technology that aims to perform autonomous actions to assist humans and does not require a human to tell them what to do, as they gather data based on user preference. Anthropic said that the tech could help students learn new topics by using Claude to analyse learning materials and notes from the classroom while also searching for the latest academic research. The company said it could also help parents to organise calendar events while also searching the web for weather forecasts and local community events. Anthropic added that the tools have enterprise-grade security that keeps your data within the user's control and maintains the confidentiality of the user's company knowledge. The company said Google Workspace integration is available for early testing in beta to all paid users. Related Anthropic poaches Google DeepMind talent to lead new European office Coming to Europe Research is not yet available in Europe for the moment, but the company told Euronews Next that it will be available in Europe and worldwide soon, without specifying a date. The announcements come as Anthropic launches a major European hiring spree. Last week, it announced it was creating more than 100 new engineering, research, sales and business operations roles across Europe. "We've long planned to deepen our investment [in Europe]," said Daniela Amodei, president and cofounder of Anthropic, in a statement. "Since launching Claude in Europe last year, we've seen rapid organic growth amongst businesses and consumers alike, confirming the region's strategic importance to Anthropic's future".
