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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: September 2, 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, geography, and funding visibility.
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| Adaption Labs San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $50.0M |
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| Liquid AI Cambridge, United States | Foundation Models / LLMs | $287.6M |
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| Reka AI San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $168M |
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| Allen Institute for AI (AI2) Seattle, United States | Foundation Models / LLMs | $277M total (all grants) |
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| Hark San Jose, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $800.0M |
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| Reflection AI Inc. New York, NY, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $4.63B |
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| Poolside AI San Francisco, California, United States (with offices in Paris, France) | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.626B equity raised (Seed $26M + Series A $100M + Series B $500M + Nvidia Strategic Investment $1B Aug 2026 at $12B pre-money / ~$13B post); prior $2B Series C attempt failed spring 2026. Separately Nvidia paid $6B non-exclusive Model Factory license (Aug 2026), not equity. |
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| Core Automation San Francisco, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $532M |
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| Mirendil San Francisco, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $200M |
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| Digs Vancouver, Washington, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | $20M |
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| Google (Alphabet Inc.) — Gemini 3.7 Flash Mountain View, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | 90000000000 |
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| Meta Muse Glimmer Menlo Park, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Not disclosed |
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| Accelerated Understanding Pasadena, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Undisclosed |
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| Google Gemini 3.7 Flash Mountain View, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Not disclosed |
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| Nvidia Nemotron 4 Santa Clara, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Not disclosed |
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| Apple Inc. (Apple Intelligence China custom AI model) Cupertino, California, USA | Foundation Models / LLMs | Not disclosed |
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| Advanced Machine Intelligence Labs (AMI Labs) Paris, France | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.03B |
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| Zenteiq.ai Bangalore, India | Foundation Models / LLMs | ~₹206.49 Cr (~$24M) IndiaAI Mission support (₹165.19 Cr compute + ₹41.30 Cr non-compute) |
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| Ineffable Intelligence London, United Kingdom | Foundation Models / LLMs | $1.1B |
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| Agnes AI Singapore | Foundation Models / LLMs | $20M |
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Funding Comparison Signals
Adaption Labs
Seed ($50.0M, Feb 2025)
Investors: ["Emergence Capital","Mozilla Ventures","Fifty Years","Threshold Ventures","Alpha Intelligence Capital","E14 Fund","Neo"]
Liquid AI
Series A
Investors: ["AMD (lead investor)","Samsung Catalyst Fund","OSS Capital","PagsGroup","Duke Capital Partners"]
Reka AI
Series B ($110M, backed by NVIDIA and Snowflake)
Investors: ["Snowflake Ventures","NVIDIA","DST Global Partners","Radical Ventures","Nat Friedman"]
Allen Institute for AI (AI2)
Grant ($152M from NSF + NVIDIA)
Investors: ["Paul Allen (Founder)","National Science Foundation (NSF)","NVIDIA"]
Hark
Series A
Investors: ["Parkway Venture Capital","Brett Adcock","NVIDIA","AMD Ventures","Intel Capital","Qualcomm Ventures","Salesforce Ventures","ARK Invest","Brookfield","Greycroft","Align Ventures","Prime Movers Lab"]
Reflection AI Inc.
Series C
Investors: ["Nvidia","Sequoia Capital","Lightspeed Venture Partners","CRV","JPMorgan Chase","Eric Schmidt","DST, 1789 Capital","B Capital","GIC","Citi","Reid Hoffman","Alexandr Wang"]
Poolside AI
Series B, $500.0M, 2024-10, led by Bain Capital Ventures
Investors: ["Nvidia", "Bain Capital Ventures", "DST Global", "StepStone Group", "Citi Ventures", "HSBC Ventures", "CoreWeave"]
Core Automation
Venture Round
Investors: ["Nvidia","Spark Capital","Accel","Scribble Ventures","Threshold Ventures"]