News
Latest news on Anthropic, Claude and the Amodeis. See the timeline for the full history.
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October 2026Public benefit fundAnthropic announces it will set aside 5% of its shares for a new public benefit fund. Dario and the other co-founders have pledged to donate 80% of their wealth.
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September 2026White House meetingDario meets with the Trump administration at the White House, a sign of easing tensions after the Defense Department labeled Anthropic a supply chain risk.
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July 2026Claude Opus 5Launches Claude Opus 5 for complex agentic coding and enterprise work. Triples ARC-AGI 3 scores vs. next-best model, and matches Fable 5 on coding benchmarks at half the price.
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June 2026Claude 5 family & Sonnet 5Releases Claude Fable 5 (most capable widely released model) and Claude Sonnet 5. Introduces Mythos 5 for Project Glasswing partners. New model tiers: Mythos, Fable, Opus, Sonnet, Haiku.
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June 2026Confidential S-1 filingAnthropic confidentially submits draft S-1 to the SEC, signaling preparation for a public offering.
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May 2026$965B valuation & Opus 4.8Raises $65B Series H at $965B post-money valuation. Launches Claude Opus 4.8 with major agentic and coding improvements.
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April 2026Project Glasswing & Claude DesignLaunches multi-organization software security initiative with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google. Introduces Claude Design for visual prototyping.
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February 2026Claude 4 releaseLaunches Claude 4 with significant capability improvements across reasoning and coding.
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January 2026The Adolescence of TechnologyDario publishes essay framing AI development as a civilizational rite of passage requiring responsible stewardship.