Claude News Timeline
Stay up-to-date with the latest announcements, product updates, and news from Anthropic about Claude.
September 2025
Claude can now create and edit files
Claude can now create and edit Excel spreadsheets, documents, PowerPoint slides, and PDFs directly in Claude.ai and the desktop app, transforming how users work by producing ready-to-use files from instructions and data. This feature is available as a preview for Max, Team, and Enterprise users, with Pro users getting access in coming weeks.
Sep 9, 2025 | Category: Product
Anthropic is endorsing SB 53
Anthropic is endorsing California's SB 53, a bill governing powerful AI systems that requires companies to develop safety frameworks, publish transparency reports, and report critical incidents to the state. The company supports this trust but verify approach as it formalizes practices already followed by frontier AI companies while creating a level playing field for safety disclosure.
Sep 8, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Updating restrictions of sales to unsupported regions
Anthropic is strengthening regional restrictions to prevent companies controlled by adversarial nations like China from accessing their services, even through subsidiaries in other countries. The updated policy prohibits entities more than 50% owned by companies from unsupported regions, addressing national security risks where authoritarian governments can compel data sharing and intelligence cooperation.
Sep 4, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Anthropic raises $13B Series F at $183B post-money valuation
Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F funding round led by ICONIQ, valuing the company at $183 billion post-money with participation from major investors including Fidelity, Lightspeed, and BlackRock. The funding reflects Anthropic's rapid growth from $1 billion run-rate revenue in early 2025 to over $5 billion by August, making it one of the fastest-growing technology companies in history.
Sep 2, 2025 | Category: Announcements
August 2025
Updates to Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy
Anthropic updated its Consumer Terms and Privacy Policy to allow training new models using data from Free, Pro, and Max accounts when users opt-in, with an extended 5-year data retention period for those who consent. Current users have until September 28, 2025 to make their selection, while new users choose during signup.
Aug 28, 2025 | Category: Product
Introducing the Anthropic National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council
Anthropic formed the National Security and Public Sector Advisory Council, featuring bipartisan former government leaders including Senators Roy Blunt and Jon Tester, former Defense officials, and intelligence community veterans. The council will help identify high-impact AI applications for national security, develop industry standards, and strengthen public-private partnerships.
Aug 27, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Detecting and countering misuse of AI: August 2025
Anthropic's threat intelligence report reveals sophisticated AI misuse including a large-scale extortion operation using Claude Code, North Korean employment fraud schemes, and AI-generated ransomware sales. The report shows cybercriminals are weaponizing agentic AI to perform attacks rather than just advise, lowering barriers to sophisticated cybercrime for actors with minimal technical skills.
Aug 27, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Claude Code and new admin controls for business plans
Claude Code is now available for Team and Enterprise customers through premium seats that include enhanced usage and coding capabilities, allowing seamless transitions between ideation and implementation. New admin controls include self-serve seat management, granular spend controls, usage analytics, and a Compliance API for real-time programmatic access to usage data.
Aug 20, 2025 | Category: Product
Anthropic appoints Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan and announces hiring plans
Anthropic appointed Hidetoshi Tojo as Head of Japan, bringing extensive experience from scaling technology companies including Snowflake, Google Cloud, and Microsoft across Japan operations. The appointment supports Anthropic's expansion plans including opening their first Asia office in Tokyo and hiring local talent to serve Japanese customers.
Aug 6, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Automate security reviews with Claude Code
Claude Code introduced automated security reviews through a new /security-review command and GitHub Actions integration that identifies vulnerabilities like SQL injection, XSS, and authentication flaws before code reaches production. The features allow ad-hoc security analysis from terminals and automatic pull request reviews with inline comments and fix recommendations.
Aug 6, 2025 | Category: Announcements
July 2025
Anthropic to sign the EU Code of Practice
Anthropic announced its intention to sign the EU's General-Purpose AI Code of Practice, viewing it as advancing transparency, safety, and accountability principles for frontier AI development. The Code establishes mandatory Safety and Security Frameworks building on Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy while maintaining flexibility to adapt with evolving technology.
Jul 21, 2025 | Category: Policy
Paul Smith to join Anthropic as Chief Commercial Officer
Paul Smith will join Anthropic as its first Chief Commercial Officer later in 2025, bringing over 30 years of experience building global go-to-market organizations at Microsoft, Salesforce, and ServiceNow. The appointment comes during exceptional growth with hundreds of thousands of active API customers and Claude Code revenue growing over 5x in two months.
Jul 15, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Anthropic and the Department of Defense to advance responsible AI in defense operations
Anthropic received a $200 million, two-year agreement from the U.S. Department of Defense to prototype frontier AI capabilities for national security applications. The partnership will focus on developing working prototypes fine-tuned on DOD data, collaborating on adversarial AI mitigation, and accelerating responsible AI adoption across defense operations.
Jul 14, 2025 | Category: Announcements
June 2025
National security expert Richard Fontaine appointed to Anthropic’s long-term benefit trust
Richard Fontaine, CEO of the Center for a New American Security, was appointed to Anthropic's Long-Term Benefit Trust, bringing extensive national security experience including roles at the NSC, State Department, and Defense Policy Board. His appointment addresses the growing intersection between AI capabilities and geopolitical risks, strengthening the Trust's ability to guide Anthropic through complex decisions.
Jun 7, 2025 | Category: Announcements
May 2025
Reed Hastings appointed to Anthropic’s board of directors
Reed Hastings, Netflix co-founder and former CEO, was appointed to Anthropic's board of directors by the Long-Term Benefit Trust. Hastings brings 25+ years of scaling experience and recently donated $50 million to establish an AI and Humanity research initiative at Bowdoin College.
May 28, 2025 | Category: Announcements
New capabilities for building agents on the Anthropic API
Anthropic announced four new API capabilities for building AI agents: code execution tool for Python analysis, MCP connector for external system integration, Files API for document management, and extended prompt caching up to one hour. These features enable developers to build more powerful agents that can execute code, connect to third-party services, manage files across sessions, and maintain context cost-effectively.
May 22, 2025 | Category: Product
April 2025
Claude takes research to new places
Anthropic introduced Research capabilities that enable Claude to conduct multi-step web searches and a Google Workspace integration connecting Gmail, Calendar, and Google Docs. Research allows Claude to operate agentically, exploring different angles and building comprehensive answers with citations, while the Google Workspace integration provides deeper work context without manual file uploads.
Apr 15, 2025 | Category: Product
Anthropic appoints Guillaume Princen as Head of EMEA and announces 100+ new roles across the region
Guillaume Princen was appointed as Anthropic's Head of EMEA, bringing experience from scaling Stripe's European operations across 12 offices and serving as CEO of Mooncard. Anthropic plans to create over 100 new roles across sales, engineering, research, and operations in Dublin and London offices this year.
Apr 8, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Introducing Anthropic's first developer conference: Code with Claude
Anthropic announced Code with Claude, its first developer conference taking place May 22, 2025 in San Francisco at The Midway. The hands-on event will focus on real-world implementations using the Anthropic API, CLI tools, and Model Context Protocol (MCP), featuring interactive workshops, product roadmap discussions, and networking opportunities.
Apr 3, 2025 | Category: Event
March 2025
Progress from our Frontier Red Team
Anthropic's Frontier Red Team reported significant progress in AI capabilities across cybersecurity and biology, with Claude advancing from high school to undergraduate level in cybersecurity CTF challenges within one year. While models show early warning signs in dual-use capabilities and exceed expert baselines in some biology tasks, they still fall short of thresholds for substantially elevated national security risks.
Mar 19, 2025 | Category: Policy
February 2025
Anthropic partners with U.S. National Labs for first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam
Anthropic partnered with the U.S. Department of Energy for the first 1,000 Scientist AI Jam, bringing together scientists from multiple National Laboratories to evaluate Claude 3.7 Sonnet on scientific research and national security applications. The event will test Claude's capabilities across real-world research problems including hypothesis generation, experiment planning, and result analysis.
Feb 28, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Introducing Anthropic's Transparency Hub
Anthropic launched its Transparency Hub, providing detailed information on safety protocols, risk mitigation strategies, platform abuse detection, and governance policies. The hub includes the first periodic report on key metrics like banned accounts, appeals, and government requests, designed as a unified framework to address diverse transparency requirements.
Feb 27, 2025 | Category: Societal Impacts
Claude and Alexa+
Claude models now power Amazon's Alexa+ through a collaboration between Anthropic and Amazon teams, with Anthropic's Chief Product Officer Mike Krieger leading the integration effort. Alexa+ benefits from Claude's advanced capabilities and safety features, including jailbreaking resistance, and accesses Claude through Amazon Bedrock.
Feb 26, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Statement from Dario Amodei on the Paris AI Action Summit
Dario Amodei issued a statement following the Paris AI Action Summit emphasizing three critical areas needing greater focus: ensuring democratic societies lead in AI development, addressing growing security risks including CBRN threats and autonomous AI dangers, and preparing for massive economic disruption from AI advancement. He warned that by 2026-2027, AI capabilities could resemble a country of geniuses in a datacenter and called for accelerated action to match the pace of AI progress.
Feb 11, 2025 | Category: Announcements
Lyft to bring Claude to more than 40 million riders and over 1 million drivers
Lyft is partnering with Anthropic to integrate Claude across its platform serving over 40 million riders and 1 million drivers, focusing on AI-powered solutions, early testing of new models, and engineering advancement. The collaboration has already shown significant impact, with Lyft's Claude-powered customer care assistant reducing resolution time by 87% while handling thousands of daily inquiries.
Feb 6, 2025 | Category: Announcements
January 2025
Introducing Citations on the Anthropic API
Anthropic launched Citations, a new API feature that allows Claude to ground its responses in source documents by providing detailed references to exact sentences and passages used to generate answers. The feature is generally available on the Anthropic API and Google Cloud's Vertex AI, with internal evaluations showing up to 15% improvement in recall accuracy compared to custom implementations.
Jan 23, 2025 | Category: Product
Anthropic achieves ISO 42001 certification for responsible AI
Anthropic achieved ISO 42001 certification, the first international standard for AI governance and management systems, making it one of the first frontier AI labs to receive this accreditation. The certification validates Anthropic's comprehensive framework for identifying, assessing, and mitigating AI risks through policies, testing, transparency measures, and established oversight responsibilities.
Jan 13, 2025 | Category: Announcements
December 2024
Elections and AI in 2024: observations and learnings
Anthropic published observations from the 2024 election cycle, noting that election-related activity constituted less than 0.5% of overall Claude usage, rising to just over 1% during peak election weeks. The company implemented comprehensive safety measures including policy enforcement, rigorous testing, and directing users to authoritative sources, while using their new Clio tool to analyze usage patterns and ensure responsible AI deployment during elections.
Dec 12, 2024 | Category: Societal Impacts
Claude 3.5 Haiku on AWS Trainium2 and model distillation in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic announced Claude 3.5 Haiku optimization for AWS Trainium2 chips, delivering up to 60% faster inference speeds, and introduced model distillation in Amazon Bedrock that enables Claude 3 Haiku to achieve Claude 3.5 Sonnet-like accuracy for specific tasks. The company also reduced Claude 3.5 Haiku pricing to $0.80 per million input tokens and $4 per million output tokens across all platforms.
Dec 3, 2024 | Category: Product
November 2024
Tailor Claude’s responses to your personal style
Anthropic introduced custom styles for Claude.ai, allowing users to tailor Claude's responses to match their communication preferences, tone, and structure. Users can choose from preset options (Formal, Concise, Explanatory) or generate custom styles by uploading sample content, enabling Claude to adapt to individual workflows and writing preferences.
Nov 26, 2024 | Category: Product
Introducing the Model Context Protocol
Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a new standard for connecting AI assistants to data sources including content repositories, business tools, and development environments. MCP provides a universal protocol to replace fragmented integrations, with local server support in Claude Desktop apps and pre-built servers for popular enterprise systems like Google Drive, Slack, GitHub, and Postgres.
Nov 25, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Powering the next generation of AI development with AWS
Anthropic announced an expanded $4 billion partnership with AWS, bringing Amazon's total investment to $8 billion while establishing AWS as their primary cloud and training partner. The collaboration includes deep technical work on AWS Trainium accelerators, with Anthropic contributing to hardware optimization and the AWS Neuron software stack to train their most advanced foundation models.
Nov 22, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Improve your prompts in the developer console
Anthropic introduced a prompt improver feature in the developer console that automatically refines existing prompts using advanced engineering techniques like chain-of-thought reasoning and example standardization. The tool also includes structured example management and evaluation capabilities, with testing showing 30% accuracy improvements for classification tasks and 100% word count adherence for summarization.
Nov 14, 2024 | Category: Product
October 2024
The case for targeted regulation
Anthropic published their position on AI regulation, advocating for targeted, RSP-based (Responsible Scaling Policy) regulation that focuses on transparency, incentivizing better safety practices, and maintaining simplicity. The company argues that governments should urgently act within 18 months to implement proportionate regulation that addresses catastrophic risks while supporting innovation, emphasizing the need for surgical rather than broad regulatory approaches.
Oct 31, 2024 | Category: Policy
Claude 3.5 Sonnet on GitHub Copilot
Claude 3.5 Sonnet became available on GitHub Copilot, bringing Claude's coding capabilities to over 100 million developers through Visual Studio Code and GitHub.com. The upgraded model outperforms all publicly available models on SWE-bench Verified and achieves 93.7% on HumanEval, enabling developers to write production-ready code, debug with inline chat, and create comprehensive test suites.
Oct 29, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Introducing the analysis tool in Claude.ai
Anthropic launched the analysis tool in Claude.ai, a built-in JavaScript code sandbox that enables Claude to write and run code for data processing, analysis, and real-time insights. The tool allows Claude to work like a data analyst by systematically processing data from CSV files, providing mathematically precise and reproducible answers for various business teams including marketing, sales, product management, and finance.
Oct 24, 2024 | Category: Product
Developing a computer use model
Anthropic announced Claude's new computer use capability, allowing the AI to control computers by taking screenshots, moving cursors, clicking, and typing like humans do. This represents a significant breakthrough in AI progress, enabling Claude to use any software directly rather than requiring custom tools, though the feature remains slow and error-prone in its current beta state.
Oct 22, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy
Anthropic released a major update to its Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), introducing more flexible risk assessment methods and refined capability thresholds for upgrading safety measures. The updated framework includes new AI Safety Level Standards and specific thresholds for autonomous AI research capabilities and CBRN weapons assistance, while maintaining the core commitment not to deploy models without adequate safeguards.
Oct 15, 2024 | Category: Announcements
U.S. Elections Readiness
Anthropic outlined its comprehensive election readiness measures for the 2024 U.S. elections, including updated usage policies prohibiting campaigning and misinformation, automated enforcement systems, and redirecting users to authoritative voting information. The company implemented strict controls against election-related misuse while conducting ongoing vulnerability testing and policy refinements to ensure responsible AI use during the election period.
Oct 8, 2024 | Category: Societal Impacts
Introducing the Message Batches API
Anthropic launched the Message Batches API, enabling developers to process up to 10,000 queries asynchronously at 50% lower cost than standard API calls. The service processes batches within 24 hours and offers enhanced throughput without impacting standard rate limits, making large-scale data processing more economically viable for tasks like dataset analysis and document processing.
Oct 8, 2024 | Category: Product
September 2024
Fine-tuning for Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock is now generally available
Fine-tuning for Claude 3 Haiku became generally available in Amazon Bedrock, allowing developers to customize the fastest and most cost-effective Claude model with their own data. The feature enables enhanced domain expertise, cost savings, and faster response times, with demonstrated improvements showing fine-tuned Haiku outperforming even Claude 3.5 Sonnet base model in specialized financial analysis tasks.
Sep 23, 2024 | Category: Product
Introducing Contextual Retrieval
Anthropic introduced Contextual Retrieval, a new technique that dramatically improves RAG (Retrieval-Augmented Generation) systems by adding chunk-specific context before embedding. The method reduces retrieval failures by 49% when combined with BM25, and up to 67% when paired with reranking, significantly enhancing the accuracy of knowledge base searches for AI applications.
Sep 19, 2024 | Category: Product
Workspaces in the Anthropic API Console
Anthropic launched Workspaces in the API Console to help developers manage multiple Claude deployments across different environments and use cases. The feature provides granular spend limits, resource organization, independent rate limit management, streamlined access controls, and workspace-level usage monitoring for better project management and security.
Sep 10, 2024 | Category: Product
Claude for Enterprise
Anthropic announced Claude for Enterprise, offering a 500K context window, enhanced security features like SSO and role-based permissions, and native GitHub integration for codebase collaboration. The enterprise plan enables organizations to securely work with internal knowledge while maintaining data protection, with early customers like GitLab and Midjourney using it across various business functions.
Sep 4, 2024 | Category: Product
Salesforce teams up with Anthropic to enhance Einstein capabilities with Claude
Salesforce partnered with Anthropic to integrate Claude models (3.5 Sonnet, Opus, and Haiku) into Einstein capabilities through Amazon Bedrock. The integration allows Salesforce customers to use Claude for sales, marketing, customer service, and other enterprise functions while maintaining security through Salesforce's Einstein Trust Layer and existing compliance standards.
Sep 3, 2024 | Category: Announcements
August 2024
Artifacts are now generally available
Artifacts became generally available to all Claude.ai users across Free, Pro, and Team plans, including mobile iOS and Android apps. The feature creates a dedicated workspace for users to instantly see, iterate, and build on creative work with Claude, from code snippets and visualizations to interactive prototypes, with tens of millions of Artifacts created since the preview launch.
Aug 27, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Prompt caching with Claude
Anthropic introduced prompt caching for Claude, enabling developers to cache frequently used context between API calls with up to 90% cost reduction and 85% latency improvement. The feature is particularly effective for conversational agents, coding assistants, and large document processing, with cached content costing only 10% of base input token prices while cache writes cost 25% more.
Aug 14, 2024 | Category: Product
Expanding our model safety bug bounty program
Anthropic expanded its model safety bug bounty program to focus on identifying universal jailbreak attacks that could bypass AI safety guardrails across high-risk domains like CBRN and cybersecurity. The invite-only program offers rewards up to $15,000 for novel vulnerabilities and provides early access to test next-generation safety mitigation systems before public deployment.
Aug 8, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Claude is now available in Brazil
Anthropic announced Claude's availability in Brazil on August 1, 2024, making the AI assistant accessible through Claude.ai, mobile apps, and the API. Brazilian users can access Claude for free or subscribe to Pro (R$ 110/month) and Team plans (R$ 165/month) with enhanced usage limits and features.
Aug 1, 2024 | Category: Announcements
July 2024
Anthropic partners with Menlo Ventures to launch Anthology Fund
Anthropic partnered with Menlo Ventures to launch the $100 million Anthology Fund on July 17, 2024, aimed at supporting startups building with Anthropic technology. The fund focuses on five key areas including AI infrastructure, healthcare applications, consumer AI solutions, and trust and safety tooling.
Jul 17, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Claude Android app
Anthropic launched the Claude Android app on July 16, 2024, bringing Claude 3.5 Sonnet to Android users for free. The app offers cross-platform conversation continuity with web and iOS versions, vision capabilities for image analysis, multilingual processing, and advanced reasoning for complex tasks.
Jul 16, 2024 | Category: Product
Fine-tune Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock
Anthropic announced fine-tuning capabilities for Claude 3 Haiku in Amazon Bedrock on July 11, 2024, allowing customers to customize the model for specialized business tasks. Fine-tuning enables better performance on domain-specific tasks, faster speeds at lower costs, and consistent brand-aligned formatting.
Jul 11, 2024 | Category: Product
Evaluate prompts in the developer console
Anthropic introduced prompt evaluation features in the developer console on July 9, 2024, streamlining AI application development. The new tools include automatic prompt generation powered by Claude 3.5 Sonnet, test case generation, and side-by-side output comparison capabilities.
Jul 9, 2024 | Category: Product
A new initiative for developing third-party model evaluations
Anthropic launched a new initiative on July 1, 2024, to fund third-party organizations developing AI model evaluations, addressing the limited evaluation ecosystem. The initiative prioritizes AI Safety Level assessments, advanced capability metrics, and evaluation infrastructure development.
Jul 1, 2024 | Category: Announcements
June 2024
Expanding access to Claude for government
Anthropic expanded Claude access to government users on June 26, 2024, making Claude 3 Haiku and Sonnet available through AWS Marketplace for the US Intelligence Community and AWS GovCloud. The expansion includes carefully crafted contractual exceptions for legally authorized foreign intelligence analysis while maintaining restrictions on disinformation, weapons design, and malicious cyber operations.
Jun 26, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Collaborate with Claude on Projects
Anthropic launched Projects on Claude.ai for Pro and Team users on June 25, 2024, enabling organized collaboration with curated knowledge sets and shared conversations. Projects include a 200K context window for documents and code, custom instructions for tailored responses, and team sharing capabilities.
Jun 25, 2024 | Category: Product
Claude 3.5 Sonnet
Anthropic released Claude 3.5 Sonnet on June 21, 2024, setting new industry benchmarks while operating at twice the speed of Claude 3 Opus. The model excels in graduate-level reasoning, coding proficiency (solving 64% of problems in internal evaluations), and vision capabilities for chart interpretation and text transcription.
Jun 21, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Challenges in red teaming AI systems
Anthropic published insights on red teaming AI systems on June 12, 2024, detailing various approaches including expert domain testing, automated red teaming, and multimodal evaluations. The post outlines challenges in standardizing red teaming practices and proposes policy recommendations including funding NIST for technical standards and supporting independent testing organizations.
Jun 12, 2024 | Category: Policy
Testing and mitigating elections-related risks
Anthropic detailed its approach to testing and mitigating elections-related risks on June 6, 2024, combining Policy Vulnerability Testing with external experts and automated evaluations. The company implemented multiple mitigations including system prompt updates, model fine-tuning, and policy refinements to improve accuracy and appropriate referrals to authoritative sources.
Jun 6, 2024 | Category: Policy
Introducing Claude to Canada
Anthropic introduced Claude to Canada on June 5, 2024, making the AI assistant available through Claude.ai, iOS app, API, and Team plan. Canadian users can access Claude for free or subscribe to Pro for CA$28/month and Team for CA$42/month per user, with access to all Claude 3 models and enhanced usage limits.
Jun 5, 2024 | Category: Announcements
May 2024
Claude can now use tools
Claude's tool use capabilities became generally available across the entire Claude 3 model family on May 30, 2024, enabling Claude to interact with external tools and APIs for tasks like data extraction, API calls, and database searches. This feature includes streaming support, forced tool selection, and image compatibility, significantly expanding Claude's practical applications for developers and businesses.
May 30, 2024 | Category: Product
Jay Kreps appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors
Jay Kreps, co-founder and CEO of Confluent, joined Anthropic's Board of Directors on May 29, 2024, bringing extensive experience in building and scaling tech companies and expertise in data infrastructure. His appointment by the Long-Term Benefit Trust comes as Anthropic prepares for its next phase of growth, while Luke Muehlhauser stepped down from the board to focus on his work at Open Philanthropy.
May 29, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Golden Gate Claude
Golden Gate Claude was a 24-hour research demonstration released on May 23, 2024, showcasing Anthropic's breakthrough in AI interpretability by artificially amplifying Claude's Golden Gate Bridge feature to make it obsessively reference the bridge in all responses. This demonstrated the ability to surgically modify specific neural pathways in AI models, representing a significant advance in understanding and potentially controlling AI behavior for safety purposes.
May 23, 2024 | Category: Product
Krishna Rao joins Anthropic as Chief Financial Officer
Krishna Rao joined Anthropic as Chief Financial Officer on May 21, 2024, bringing nearly 20 years of strategic finance experience from companies like Fanatics Commerce, Cedar, and Airbnb where he helped navigate the pandemic and IPO. His expertise in financial strategy, capital allocation, and scaling high-growth organizations will support Anthropic's enterprise momentum and international expansion plans.
May 21, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Generate better prompts in the developer console
Anthropic launched a prompt generator feature in the developer console on May 20, 2024, that automatically creates production-ready prompt templates using best practices like chain-of-thought reasoning and role setting. The tool helps both new and experienced prompt engineers by generating effective, precise prompts based on task descriptions, significantly reducing development time and improving output quality.
May 20, 2024 | Category: Product
Reflections on our Responsible Scaling Policy
Anthropic published reflections on implementing their Responsible Scaling Policy on May 20, 2024, outlining five key commitments including establishing Red Line Capabilities, conducting frontier risk evaluations, and developing ASL-3 safety standards. The post detailed lessons learned from operationalizing the policy, including challenges in threat modeling, evaluation methodologies, and the need for significant organizational investment in safety measures.
May 20, 2024 | Category: Policy
Mike Krieger joins Anthropic as Chief Product Officer
Mike Krieger, co-founder and former CTO of Instagram, joined Anthropic as Chief Product Officer on May 15, 2024, bringing experience scaling platforms to over a billion users and building Artifact, a personalized news app. He will oversee product engineering, management, and design efforts as Anthropic expands its enterprise applications and brings Claude to a wider audience.
May 15, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Claude is now available in Europe
Claude became available across Europe on May 14, 2024, including Claude.ai, the iOS app, and the Team plan, following the earlier European launch of the Claude API. The expansion provides Europeans access to Claude's strong multilingual capabilities in French, German, Spanish, and Italian, with Claude Pro available for €18 + VAT per month and Team plan for €28 + VAT per user per month.
May 14, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Updating our Usage Policy
Anthropic updated its Usage Policy (formerly Acceptable Use Policy) on May 10, 2024, with changes taking effect June 6, 2024, streamlining guidelines into Universal Usage Standards and clarifying restrictions on election interference and misinformation. The update also added requirements for high-risk use cases like healthcare decisions, expanded access for minors through organizations with safety measures, and strengthened privacy protections against biometric analysis and government censorship.
May 10, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Introducing the Claude Team plan and iOS app
Anthropic launched the Claude Team plan ($30 per user per month, minimum 5 seats) and iOS app on May 1, 2024, providing teams with increased usage, access to the full Claude 3 model family, and administrative tools. The free iOS app offers seamless syncing with web chats, vision capabilities for photo analysis, and mobile access to Claude's frontier intelligence capabilities.
May 1, 2024 | Category: Product
April 2024
Aligning on child safety principles
Anthropic committed to child safety principles on April 23, 2024, as part of a Safety by Design initiative led by Thorn and All Tech Is Human to prevent AI-generated child sexual abuse material (AIG-CSAM). The commitment includes specific measures across development, deployment, and maintenance phases, such as responsibly sourcing training data, detecting abusive content, and reporting violations to NCMEC.
Apr 23, 2024 | Category: Announcements
March 2024
Third-party testing as a key ingredient of AI policy
Anthropic published a policy position on March 25, 2024, advocating for third-party testing as essential for AI policy, arguing that frontier AI systems need independent oversight to validate safety claims and prevent misuse. The company outlined how such testing regimes should work, including automated initial screening followed by expert human evaluation, and emphasized the need for government funding of testing infrastructure and evaluation capabilities.
Mar 25, 2024 | Category: Policy
Anthropic, AWS, and Accenture team up to build trusted solutions for enterprises
Anthropic announced a collaboration with AWS and Accenture to help enterprises deploy generative AI solutions responsibly, particularly in regulated sectors. Over 1,400 Accenture engineers will be trained as specialists in using Anthropic's models on AWS, providing end-to-end support from concept to production while keeping customer data private and secure.
Mar 20, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Claude 3 models on Vertex AI
Claude 3 Haiku and Claude 3 Sonnet became generally available on Google Cloud's Vertex AI platform, enabling enterprises to use Anthropic's state-of-the-art models with Google Cloud's infrastructure and tools. This collaboration allows businesses to keep their data within their existing cloud environment while simplifying data governance and reducing operational costs.
Mar 19, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Claude 3 Haiku: our fastest model yet
Anthropic released Claude 3 Haiku, the fastest and most affordable model in its intelligence class, processing 21K tokens per second and featuring strong vision capabilities. Haiku is three times faster than its peers for most workloads and costs significantly less, enabling businesses to analyze large volumes of documents like quarterly filings or legal cases at half the cost of other models in its performance tier.
Mar 13, 2024 | Category: Announcements
Introducing the next generation of Claude
Anthropic introduced the Claude 3 model family, setting new industry benchmarks with three models: Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, each offering different balances of intelligence, speed, and cost. Claude 3 Opus outperforms peers on most evaluation benchmarks and exhibits near-human comprehension, while all models feature sophisticated vision capabilities, 200K context windows, improved accuracy with 2x fewer hallucinations, and significantly fewer unnecessary refusals.
Mar 4, 2024 | Category: Announcements
February 2024
Prompt engineering for business performance
Anthropic published guidance on prompt engineering for business performance, emphasizing how effective prompts improve Claude's accuracy, consistency, and cost-effectiveness while reducing hallucination rates. The article shares three key techniques: step-by-step reasoning, few-shot prompting with examples, and prompt chaining for complex tasks.
Feb 29, 2024 | Category: Product
Preparing for global elections in 2024
Anthropic outlined their preparation for global elections in 2024, implementing policies that prohibit using Claude for political campaigning and lobbying, while conducting targeted red-teaming to test for election-related misuse. The company developed automated systems to detect misinformation and influence operations, and introduced a redirect system for US users asking voting questions to send them to authoritative sources like TurboVote.
Feb 16, 2024 | Category: Policy
December 2023
Expanded legal protections and improvements to our API
Anthropic introduced new Commercial Terms of Service with expanded copyright indemnity protection and launched the beta Messages API for improved developer experience. The updated terms allow customers to retain ownership of outputs and provide legal protection against copyright infringement claims, with Anthropic defending customers and paying for settlements or judgments.
Dec 19, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Long context prompting for Claude 2.1
Anthropic published insights on long context prompting for Claude 2.1, revealing that while the model has excellent recall across its 200K token context window, it can be reluctant to answer questions based on individual sentences that appear out of place in documents. Adding the simple prompt Here is the most relevant sentence in the context: improved Claude 2.1's performance from 27% to 98% on retrieval tasks.
Dec 6, 2023 | Category: Product
November 2023
Introducing Claude 2.1
Anthropic launched Claude 2.1 with significant improvements including an industry-leading 200K token context window (equivalent to 500 pages), a 2x decrease in hallucination rates, and new features like system prompts and beta tool use functionality. The model demonstrates 30% fewer incorrect answers and 3-4x lower rates of mistakenly concluding documents support particular claims.
Nov 21, 2023 | Category: Product
Thoughts on the US Executive Order, G7 Code of Conduct, and Bletchley Park Summit
Anthropic shared their perspective on three major AI policy developments: the US Executive Order on AI, the G7 International Code of Conduct, and the UK's Bletchley Park AI Safety Summit. The company praised the Executive Order's focus on NIST and the National AI Research Resource, supported the G7 Code of Conduct as setting important baselines for frontier AI companies, and welcomed the Bletchley Declaration's international cooperation.
Nov 5, 2023 | Category: Policy
Dario Amodei’s prepared remarks from the AI Safety Summit on Anthropic’s Responsible Scaling Policy
Dario Amodei presented Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP) at the UK AI Safety Summit, outlining their AI Safety Levels (ASL) system modeled after biological safety protocols. The RSP includes if-then commitments where dangerous AI capabilities trigger specific safety requirements, with ASL-3 requiring strong security measures and perfect safety performance, and ASL-4 addressing autonomous AI risks.
Nov 1, 2023 | Category: Policy
September 2023
Claude on Amazon Bedrock now available to every AWS customer
Claude became generally available on Amazon Bedrock for all AWS customers, providing secure cloud access to foundation models and enabling the development of generative AI applications. The announcement highlighted upcoming Agents for Amazon Bedrock functionality, which allows Claude to orchestrate API calls and perform complex multi-step tasks.
Sep 28, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Expanding access to safer AI with Amazon
Anthropic announced a strategic partnership with Amazon involving up to $4 billion in investment, making AWS their primary cloud provider and expanding Claude 2 availability on Amazon Bedrock. The collaboration includes access to AWS Trainium and Inferentia chips for model training, secure model customization capabilities for enterprises, and integration across Amazon's businesses while maintaining Anthropic's governance structure through the Long-Term Benefit Trust.
Sep 25, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Prompt engineering for Claude's long context window
Anthropic published research on prompt engineering techniques for Claude's 100,000 token context window, demonstrating how to maximize information recall from long documents. The study found that using reference quote extraction and providing contextual examples significantly improved Claude's performance on multiple choice questions, with Claude Instant 1.2 showing substantial gains when these techniques were applied to documents containing 70K-95K tokens.
Sep 23, 2023 | Category: Product
Anthropic's Responsible Scaling Policy
Anthropic released their Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), establishing AI Safety Levels (ASL) framework modeled after biosafety standards to manage catastrophic risks from increasingly capable AI systems. The policy defines safety requirements for different capability levels, with ASL-2 covering current models like Claude, ASL-3 requiring enhanced security and red-teaming standards, and creates a framework that incentivizes solving safety problems to unlock further AI scaling.
Sep 19, 2023 | Category: Announcements
The Long-Term Benefit Trust
Anthropic introduced the Long-Term Benefit Trust (LTBT), a governance structure featuring five independent trustees who will gradually gain authority to elect a majority of Anthropic's board within four years. This experimental corporate governance model aims to balance stockholder interests with public benefit by ensuring board accountability to trustees with expertise in AI safety, national security, and public policy, while maintaining the company's mission of developing AI for humanity's long-term benefit.
Sep 19, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Anthropic partners with BCG
Anthropic partnered with Boston Consulting Group (BCG) to bring Claude to enterprise customers worldwide, focusing on responsible AI deployment across use cases like knowledge management, market research, and business analysis. The collaboration leverages BCG's consulting expertise to help organizations strategically implement AI while maintaining ethical standards, with BCG also using Claude internally for research synthesis and client insights.
Sep 14, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Introducing Claude Pro
Anthropic launched Claude Pro, a paid subscription plan offering 5x more usage of Claude 2 for $20/month in the US and £18/month in the UK. The service provides priority access during high-traffic periods, early access to new features, and significantly expanded message limits, enabling users to handle more complex tasks like research paper summarization, contract analysis, and extended coding projects.
Sep 7, 2023 | Category: Announcements
August 2023
Claude 2 on Amazon Bedrock
Claude 2 became available on Amazon Bedrock, Amazon's fully managed foundation model service, enabling enterprises to build generative AI applications with enhanced security and scalability. Early adopters include LexisNexis using Claude 2 for legal AI capabilities, Lonely Planet for travel planning with 80% cost reduction in itinerary generation, and Ricoh USA for AI-driven operations while maintaining HIPAA and SOC II compliance.
Aug 23, 2023 | Category: Product
SKT Partnership Announcement
SK Telecom (SKT) became both a commercial partner and strategic investor in Anthropic with an additional $100 million investment, collaborating to develop a fine-tuned large language model optimized for telecommunications applications. The partnership will create a multilingual model supporting Korean, English, Japanese, and Spanish for telco use cases including customer service, marketing, and sales, leveraging SKT's domain expertise to customize Claude for the telecommunications industry.
Aug 15, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Releasing Claude Instant 1.2
Anthropic released Claude Instant 1.2, an updated version of their faster, lower-cost model that incorporates improvements from Claude 2 while maintaining speed and affordability. The new version shows significant gains in math (86.7% vs 80.9% on GSM8K), coding (58.7% vs 52.8% on Codex), reasoning capabilities, and safety with reduced hallucinations and better resistance to jailbreaks, while generating longer and more structured responses.
Aug 9, 2023 | Category: Announcements
July 2023
Frontier Threats Red Teaming for AI Safety
Anthropic conducted frontier threats red teaming research focusing on biological risks, spending 150+ hours with biosecurity experts to evaluate Claude's potential for generating harmful biological information. The study found that current frontier models can produce expert-level knowledge that could accelerate bad actors' efforts, with risks potentially materializing in 2-3 years, but also identified effective mitigations including Constitutional AI training and classifier-based filters that substantially reduce these risks.
Jul 26, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Frontier Model Security
Anthropic published their approach to frontier model security, recommending two-party control systems and secure software development practices (NIST SSDF and SLSA standards) for protecting advanced AI models. The company advocates treating frontier AI as critical infrastructure requiring enhanced cybersecurity measures, public-private cooperation similar to financial services, and government procurement requirements to ensure industry-wide adoption of robust security practices.
Jul 25, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Claude 2
Anthropic launched Claude 2, their most advanced model featuring improved performance across coding (71.2% on Codex HumanEval), math (88.0% on GSM8k), and reasoning, with a 100,000 token context window enabling processing of entire books or extensive documentation. The model scored 76.5% on the Bar exam and above the 90th percentile on GRE reading/writing, while being 2x better at harmless responses, and is available via API and the new claude.ai chat interface in the US and UK.
Jul 11, 2023 | Category: Announcements
June 2023
Charting a Path to AI Accountability
Anthropic submitted recommendations to the NTIA on AI accountability, proposing a comprehensive framework for evaluating advanced AI systems. The recommendations include funding better evaluations, creating risk-responsive assessments based on model capabilities, establishing pre-registration for large AI training runs, empowering third-party auditors, mandating external red teaming, advancing interpretability research, and enabling industry collaboration on AI safety through antitrust clarity.
Jun 13, 2023 | Category: Announcements
May 2023
Anthropic Raises $450 Million in Series C Funding to Scale Reliable AI Products
Anthropic raised $450 million in Series C funding led by Spark Capital with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, and Zoom Ventures. The funding will support continued development of Claude and AI safety research, including new features like 100K context windows, while growing their product offerings and supporting businesses deploying Claude responsibly.
May 23, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Zoom Partnership and Investment in Anthropic
Anthropic announced a partnership with Zoom where Claude will be integrated into Zoom's products, starting with the Zoom Contact Center portfolio to improve customer experience and agent performance. Zoom Ventures also made an investment in Anthropic as part of this collaboration, reflecting their shared vision of building customer-centric AI products with trust and security foundations.
May 16, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Introducing 100K Context Windows
Anthropic expanded Claude's context window from 9K to 100K tokens (approximately 75,000 words), allowing users to submit hundreds of pages of documents for analysis. This breakthrough enables Claude to digest and analyze massive amounts of text in under a minute, supporting use cases like financial statement analysis, legal document review, and codebase modification.
May 11, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Claude’s Constitution
Anthropic published details about Claude's Constitution, explaining their Constitutional AI approach that uses explicit principles rather than implicit human feedback to guide AI behavior. The constitution draws from sources including the UN Declaration of Human Rights, platform guidelines, and AI safety research, with principles covering helpfulness, harmlessness, honesty, and respect for human values across different cultural perspectives.
May 9, 2023 | Category: Announcements
April 2023
Partnering with Scale to Bring Generative AI to Enterprises
Anthropic partnered with Scale to bring Claude to enterprise customers through Scale's robust deployment and management platform. The partnership provides enterprise-grade security, expert prompt engineering, model validation services, and data connectors for proprietary sources, enabling businesses to build and deploy generative AI applications with Claude at scale.
Apr 26, 2023 | Category: Announcements
An AI Policy Tool for Today: Ambitiously Invest in NIST
Anthropic advocated for ambitious federal investment in NIST to support AI measurement and standards efforts, proposing a $15 million funding increase. The company argues that NIST's century of measurement expertise makes it the natural choice to develop AI evaluation standards, which are essential prerequisites for effective AI regulation and public trust in AI systems.
Apr 20, 2023 | Category: Announcements
March 2023
Claude, now in Slack
Anthropic launched the Claude App for Slack in beta, allowing teams to use Claude as a virtual teammate for summarizing threads, answering questions, and various productivity tasks. Claude can be accessed through channel mentions or direct messages, with Anthropic emphasizing that it only sees messages where explicitly mentioned and doesn't use this data for model training.
Mar 30, 2023 | Category: Announcements
Introducing Claude
Anthropic officially introduced Claude, their next-generation AI assistant based on Constitutional AI research, after testing with partners like Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo. Claude offers two versions (Claude and Claude Instant) and is designed to be helpful, honest, and harmless, with early customers reporting it's less likely to produce harmful outputs and easier to steer than alternatives.
Mar 14, 2023 | Category: Announcements
February 2023
Anthropic Partners with Google Cloud
Anthropic selected Google Cloud as its cloud provider to support the next phase of scaling and deploying Claude to larger audiences. The partnership enables Anthropic to leverage Google Cloud's GPU and TPU clusters for training, scaling, and deploying AI systems, providing the infrastructure performance needed for their reliable and interpretable AI development goals.
Feb 3, 2023 | Category: Announcements
April 2022
Anthropic Raises Series B to build steerable, interpretable, robust AI systems
Anthropic raised $580 million in Series B funding led by Sam Bankman-Fried to build large-scale experimental infrastructure for exploring AI safety properties. The funding supports research into making AI systems more steerable, interpretable, and robust, building on their previous work in language model interpretability and alignment with human preferences.
Apr 29, 2022 | Category: Announcements
May 2021
Anthropic raises $124 million to build more reliable, general AI systems
Anthropic raised $124 million in Series A funding led by Jaan Tallinn to support their research roadmap for building reliable and steerable AI systems. The founding team, led by siblings Dario and Daniela Amodei, planned to focus on computationally-intensive research to develop large-scale AI systems that are more interpretable, robust, and better integrated with human feedback.
May 28, 2021 | Category: Announcements