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Companies like Anthropic
Compare Anthropic with foundation model, AI safety, and AI infrastructure companies by market position, funding signal, category, and enterprise relevance.
Target company: AnthropicPeer companies shown: 20Updated: August 10, 2026
Anthropic Snapshot
Category
Foundation Models / LLMs
Location
San Francisco, United States
Funding
$132.3B
Anthropic builds Claude, a family of frontier large language models designed with safety at the core, offering reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems for enterprises, developers, and consumers.
Anthropic’s peer map spans frontier models, safety positioning, enterprise model platforms, and infrastructure partners that influence distribution and inference economics.
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Crawler-visible peer sample ranked by category overlap, VC-score signals, geography, and funding visibility.
| Company | Category | Funding | Why it matches | Score |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Zhipu AI Beijing, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | $2.0B |
| 99% |
| Arcee Miami, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $50M |
| 97% |
| xAI San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $45B |
| 96% |
| Luma AI Redwood City, United States | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.3B+ |
| 95% |
| Mistral AI Paris, France | Foundation Models / LLMs | ~$4.0B (incl. $830M debt financing, Mar 2026) |
| 95% |
| Songscription Palo Alto, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $5 million |
| 93% |
| MiniMax Shanghai, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.77B |
| 92% |
| Sand.ai Beijing, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | $100.0M |
| 90% |
| Upstage Yongin-si, South Korea | Foundation Models / LLMs | $103.0M |
| 89% |
| PrismML Pasadena, California, United States | Foundation Models / LLMs | $16.25M |
| 89% |
| Splash Brisbane, Australia | Foundation Models / LLMs | $27M |
| 88% |
| BharatGen Mumbai, Maharashtra, India | Foundation Models / LLMs | $155M |
| 86% |
| Advanced Machine Intelligence (AMI) Paris, France | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.03B (~€890M) |
| 86% |
| Clipto Palo Alto, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | ~$20M |
| 86% |
| Venice AI San Francisco, California, United States | Foundation Models / LLMs | $65M |
| 86% |
| Thinking Machines Lab San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $2.0B |
| 85% |
| Logical Intelligence San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Undisclosed |
| 85% |
| Cohere Inc. Headquartered in Toronto with offices in San Francisco, Palo Alto, London, and New York City | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.54B total ($600M in Aug-Sept 2025) |
| 84% |
| Physis Beijing, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | $110.0M |
| 84% |
| Moonshot AI Beijing, China | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.77B |
| 82% |
Funding Comparison Signals
Zhipu AI
IPO (Jan 2026)
Investors: ["Alibaba","Tencent","Prosperity7 Ventures (Aramco)","Meituan","Beijing AI Industry Fund"]
Arcee
Series A
Investors: ["Emergence Capital","Flybridge","M12 (Microsoft's Venture Fund)","Samsung Next","Hitachi Ventures","Prosperity7 Ventures","Long Journey Ventures","Wipro","JC2 Ventures","Guidepoint"]
xAI
Series E ($20B, Jan 2026)
Investors: ["Nvidia","Cisco","Fidelity","Valor Equity Partners","Andreessen Horowitz","Sequoia Capital","Kingdom Holding","Qatar Investment Authority"]
Luma AI
Series C
Investors: ["HUMAIN (Saudi PIF)","Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)","NVIDIA","Amazon","AMD Ventures","Amplify Partners","Matrix Partners"]
Mistral AI
Series C (€1.7B, Sep 2025)
Investors: ["ASML Holding","Lightspeed Venture Partners","Andreessen Horowitz (a16z)","General Catalyst","NVIDIA","Microsoft","Bpifrance","DST Global","Index Ventures"]
Songscription
Seed
Investors: ["Reach Capital","Emerge Capital","10x Founders","Dent Capital","Ron 'Bumblefoot' Thal"]
MiniMax
Venture Round ($300.0M, Jul 2025)
Investors: ["Alibaba","Tencent","MiHoYo","HongShan","Hillhouse Investment","IDG Capital"]
Sand.ai
Series B
Investors: ["Look Capital","Lollapalooza Capital (Wang Huiwen Family Office)","九坤创投 (Jiukun Capital)","经纬创投 (Matrix Partners China)","和玉资本 (MSA Capital)","创新工场 (Sinovation Ventures)","襄禾资本","源码资本 (Source Code Capital)","中科创星","洪泰基金","今日资本 (Today Capital)","华业天成"]