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Claude (Anthropic)

Definition: Claude is a family of large language models built by Anthropic, an AI safety company, known for strong reasoning, writing, coding, and long-context understanding, and available through the Claude app and a developer API for building assistants and agents.

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Overview

What Claude is and who makes it

Claude is built by Anthropic, an AI safety company, and is offered through the Claude web and mobile apps plus a developer API. It comes in tiered models, commonly Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, that trade off speed and cost against depth of reasoning. Anthropic trains Claude with an approach called Constitutional AI aimed at making responses helpful, honest, and harmless.

What Claude is good at

Claude is widely used for careful reasoning, writing and editing, coding, and working across very large documents thanks to a long context window. It supports tool use, letting it call external functions and data. Anthropic also created the Model Context Protocol (MCP), a growing standard for connecting AI models to tools and company data.

How businesses use Claude

Claude fits both content and automation work. Our team uses it for Content Marketing and GEO & AEO, where clear, accurate writing matters, and for AI Agents, AI Chatbots, AI Voice Agents, and Workflow Automation that connect to real systems. As with any model, we stay provider-flexible and choose Claude where its strengths fit the task.

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FAQ

Claude — common questions

Who makes Claude?

Claude is made by Anthropic, an AI research and safety company founded by former OpenAI researchers. Anthropic also created the Model Context Protocol (MCP), an open standard for connecting AI models to external tools and data.

Claude vs ChatGPT, what's the difference?

ChatGPT is OpenAI's product built on GPT models; Claude is Anthropic's competing family of models. Both handle chat, reasoning, and coding well. Differences show up in writing style, safety behavior, context length, and pricing, so teams often test both on their own tasks.

Is there a free version of Claude?

Yes. Anthropic offers a free tier of the Claude app with usage limits, alongside paid consumer plans and a pay-as-you-go developer API for building Claude into your own products.

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