Anthropic Company Profile: 75+ Statistics and Trends in Q4 2023

Safety Above All: Anthropic’s Uniquely Principled Approach to AI Development

Throughout 2023, one professional field that has exploded in relevance and burst onto everybody’s screens is that of Artificial intelligence (AI). Although much of this attention has been centred on OpenAI and ChatGPT, a derivative large language model (LLM) named Claude AI has drawn serious interest from investors and enthusiasts alike. 

The pioneering firm behind Claude is a San Francisco-based startup named Anthropic, which opened its doors in early 2021. So far, Anthropic’s call to fame has been its focus and relentless dedication to developing reliable AI systems that lead the industry in responsibility and safety. 

Moreover, Anthropic has published insightful research uncovering the potential impacts of AI on the world and shedding light on any underlying risks and opportunities that come with leveraging the technology.

It is important to note that above all else, Anthropic virtuously commits itself further than the technological innovation typically expected of tech companies, instead setting safety as their success metric. They strive to build AI systems that are honest, helpful, and harmless. 

This unique approach has allowed Anthropic to build a systematic pipeline wherein the firm carries out experimental research, applies any findings to its AI offerings, and crowdsources valuable insights from the global community. This community response, in turn, further strengthens the applicability of its AI suite and aligns stakeholders (researchers, data scientists, engineers, policy analysts, etc.).  

Read on below to learn more about the statistics which provide more insight and context on Anthropic AI. 

Company History (founding, releases)

Even though Anthropic is a relatively young company, it has a rich and interesting history. Most notably, the company was created and is currently headed by AI’s most alluring sibling duo of Dario and Daniela Amodei. The pair, along with other OpenAI alumni, founded Anthropic after not being satisfied with OpenAI’s strategic direction back in 2021. The following milestones show the up to date progression of the budding AI outfit:

Who Founded Anthropic? 

• Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives, including Dario Amodei, Ilya Sutskever, and Greg Brockman (Source)

What AI Models Have Anthropic Released? 

• Anthropic launched Claude AI (ver 1.0) chatbot on March 14, 2023 (Source)
• First major upgrade to Claude 1.0 (now ver 1.3) is made public on April 18, 2023 (Source)
• Anthropic releases overhaul to Claude AI, introducing version 2.0 on July 11, 2023 (Source)
• Latest iteration of Claude AI (Ver 2.1) is made available on November 21, 2023 (Source)

Development 

Aside from the technical developments made with Claude AI, the following milestones below indicate the progress made by Anthropic as an AI firm:

What is on the Horizon for Anthropic? 

• In the next two years, Anthropic plans to raise up to $5 billion to develop “Claude-Next,” which is estimated to cost $1 billion and is anticipated to be 10 times more powerful than existing AI systems. (Source)
• Anthropic Claude-Next is said to to be ’10 times more capable than other ChatBots (Source)
• Anthropic listed as third fastest growing tech company by TrueUp (Source)

Has Anthropic Published any Academic Works? 

• Anthropic has also published over 15 safety research papers on topics such as constitutional AI, societal impacts, interpretability, red teaming, and scaling laws. (Source)

How Does Anthropic Develop Claude AI? 

• Claude AI was trained on the combination of two techniques – Constitutional AI and RLHF (Reinforcement Learning from Human Feedback) (Source)

Source: https://dergipark.org.tr/en/download/article-file/3127764

Funding

As an AI darling with a team full of silicon valley pedigree, Anthropic has been largely successful in converting investor interest into large seed investments. The following of which are detailed below: 

How Much did Anthropic Raise after Series A,B, and C Funding Rounds?  

• The company has raised $1.5 billion (July 11, 2023 6:30 AM) in funding to date from investors including Google, Salesforce Ventures, Spark Capital, Sound Ventures and Zoom Ventures (Source)

How Much Did Anthropic Raise in Series A Funding? 

• Anthropic raises $124M in Series A funding (May 28, 2021)  (Source)
• Series A led by Jaan Tallinn funding from James McClave, Dustin Moskovitz, the Center for Emerging Risk Research, Eric Schmidt, and others. (May 28, 2021)  (Source)

How Much Did Anthropic Raise in Series B Funding? 

• Anthropic raises $580M in Series B funding (4/29/2022) (Source)
• Google invests $300M in generative AI startup Anthropic, corporate funding round (2/5/2023) (Source)

How Much Did Anthropic Raise in Series C Funding? 

• Anthropic raises $450M in Series C funding (5/25/2023) (Source)
• Series C funding led by Spark Capital with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others. (5/23/2023)

Has Anthropic Raised Funds from Corporate Rounds? 

• SAP invests directly in three AI startups: Cohere, Anthropic and Aleph Alpha (undisclosed amount) -7/18/2023 (Source)
• South Korea's SK Telecom has agreed to invest $100 million in generative AI company Anthropic and partner with the startup to develop a multilingual large language model (8/15/2023) (Source)
• In a joint interview, the CEOs of Amazon's cloud division and Anthropic said the immediate investment will be $1.25 billion (9/29/2023) (Source)
• Google has agreed to invest up to $2 billion in the artificial intelligence company Anthropic, a spokesperson for the startup said on Friday. The company has invested $500 million upfront (10/27/2023) (Source)

What is Anthropic’s Market Value? 

• Latest firm valuation of $4.1B in Aug 2023 (Source)
• Anthropic listed as 11th most valuable venture-backed pre-IPO (initial public offering) company globally (updated Dec 2023) (Source).

Is Anthropic Looking for New Investors? 

• Anthropic commencing a new funding round (led by Menlo Ventures) for $750M, nearing a valuation of $18.4B (Source).

Financials 

The following data points paint a general picture of the current financial outlook of Anthropic provide a look into the company’s future prospects:

• Anthropic predicts to be making around $17 million in monthly revenue by the end of 2023 (Source)
• hopes to generate around $500 million annually by the end of 2024. (Source)
• Anthropic AI valuation is $5 billion (as of May 23, 2023). This makes Anthropic one of the most valuable AI safety companies in the world. (Source) 
• Anthropic has informed some investors that it has a $100 million annualized revenue rate—suggesting it has generated more than $8 million in revenue per month. (Source)
• By the end of the year, Anthropic says it projects nearly $17 million in monthly revenue, with aspirations to reach a $500 million annualized rate by the end of 2024. (Source)
• Estimated Revenue of $3.4M in 2021 (Source)
• Estimated Revenue of $7.9M in 2022 (Source)
• Estimated Revenue of $45M in 2023 (Source)

Management and Employees 

How Many Employees does Anthropic Employ? 

• Anthropic AI has 192 employees. (Source)

What is the Average Salary at Anthropic? 

• The average salary of an Anthropic AI employee is $182,873 per year or roughly $15239/ month or $88/hr. (Source) 

What Benefits are offered to Anthropic Employees? 

• Optional equity donation matching at a 3:1 ratio, up to 50% of the equity grant. (Source)
• A 401(k) plan with a 4% matching contribution (Source)
• Relocation support for those moving to the Bay Area (Source)

Corporate Partnerships and Location

• Amazon Bedrock 
• Quora Poe
• Google
• SAP 
• SK Telecom in South Korea 

Where is Anthropic HQ Located? 

• Anthropic headquarters is currently located in San Francisco, California, United States (Source)
• Anthropic’s main office was previously Slack’s former HQ location (Source)

Does Anthropic have a Presence Outside the U.S? 

• In late May(2023) Rishi Sunak personally met with the CEOs of OpenAI, Google DeepMind, and Anthropic (Source)
• In May 2023, Anthropic opened an office in London, UK  (Source)

Anthropic.com Traffic and Reach  

Alongside it AI model Claude AI [www.claude.ai], anthropic.com has drawn much interest from the global tech community, currently the site has achieved (Source):

• Anthropic AI averages 4.3 million visits per month, which makes it the 18,623 most popular website on the internet
• 4.7M visits monthly (Nov 2023)
• 55.93% Bounce Rate (Nov 2023)
• 2.76 pages per visit (Nov 2023)
• 00:02:21 avg visit duration (Nov 2023)
• Roughly 9% growth in site visits over previous month (Nov 2023)

Traffic by Source (Source)

• Direct Search - 48.90% 
• Organic Search - 34.01%
• Referrals - 14.02% 
• Mail - 8.80%
• Social - 2.15% 
• Display - 0.40% 
• Paid - 0.00%

Social Media (Source)

• Twitter - 18.86% 
• Linkedin - 15.23% 
• Others - 10.50% 
• Reddit - 6.59% 
• VKontakte - 3.82%

Anthropic.com User Demographics 

Using data from November 2023 (latest available data), the following data below depicts characteristics of the most frequent anthropic.com visitor;

Gender (Source)

• 35.36% of anthropic site visits are female (Nov 2023)
• 64.64% of anthropic site visits are male (Nov 2023)

Age (Source)

The median age of Anthropic AI visitors is 25- 34 years old.

• 18-24 = 20.63% 
• 25-34 = 35.58% 
• 35-44 = 20.56% 
• 45-54 = 13.19% 
• 55-64 = 6.35% 
• 65+ = 3.70%

Location (Source): 

• Rest of World - 40.60% 
• China - 30.84% 
• United States - 15.27% 
• Russia - 5.24% 
• Taiwan - 4.44%
• United Kingdom - 3.61%