Claude (AI)
large language model family developed by Anthropic
Claude is a series of large language models (LLMs) developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software development. Anthropic sells Claude-based agentic tools including Claude Code, a terminal coding agent, and Claude Cowork, a similar tool for non-programmers.
Claude is trained using a constitution, a technique developed by Anthropic to improve ethical and legal compliance. Since Claude 3, each generation has typically been released in three sizes, named Haiku (the least capable), Sonnet, and Opus (the most capable). In 2026, a more capable model named Claude Mythos was released to a handful of companies and organizations; this was followed by the release of Claude Fable, a version of Mythos with stricter safeguards, to the general public.
In February 2026, the United States Department of Defense designated Anthropic a "supply chain risk" and federal agencies were ordered to phase out Claude after the company refused to remove contractual prohibitions on using Claude for mass domestic surveillance and fully autonomous weapons. A federal judge blocked the designation in March 2026 and permanently set it aside in August 2026 as unconstitutional retaliation.
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Claude is a generative AI chatbot.
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