What is Claude AI?
Claude is a family of large language models (LLMs) developed by Anthropic.
It is named after American computer scientist Claude Shannon who is known as the 'father of information theory' and a pioneer in artificial intelligence (AI) research.
The family consists of three AI models:
Haiku , optimised for speed
Opus , designed for complex reasoning tasks
Sonnet , balancing capability and performance
The three siblings are all generative pre-trained transformers (GPT), which means they were designed to predict the next word in large amounts of text and then fine-tuned using human feedback.
Who owns Claude AI?
Claude is owned by Anthropic, which is a public benefit corporation based in San Francisco, California.
It was founded in 2021 by seven former employees o