Claude
Large language model and AI chatbot by Anthropic
Claude is commercial AI assistants software made by Anthropic. It was first released in 2023. Its English Wikipedia article has about 61k readers a month on phones.
- Made by
- Anthropic
- Since
- 2023
- Wikipedia readers on phones
- 61k a month
- Source code
- Closed
Judgement
- What it is
- Complete system
- What it does
- Anthropic's AI assistant for writing, analysis, coding and long documents, with projects, connectors to other apps, and Team and Enterprise plans.
- Adopt it when
- You want an assistant strong at long documents, careful writing and coding, with business plans for teams.
- Watch out
- Usage limits apply even on paid plans, and like any model it can state wrong things with confidence.
- Ready for
- Production-ready
- Runs as
- Cloud service, desktop app and mobile app
- What the license allows
- Closed source: you use it under the maker's terms and cannot change or resell the code.
Judged on 2026-11-03 from the maker's description and Wikipedia. The license and age lines are worked out directly.
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Under it
Every program, Claude included, runs on a microchip.
Facts come from Wikipedia and refresh weekly. Readers are counted on Wikipedia's mobile site only, because automated traffic that Wikimedia does not flag inflates desktop counts.