Kind of amusing that there is basically no mention of their original mission at all here.

What was their original mission?

My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

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s_dev 3 hours ago | parent | next [-]

>What was their original mission?

Beat OpenAI. The Founders came from OpenAI so there was obviously some disagreement about the direction there or they simply wanted more control.

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dude250711 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

To maximise shareholder value.

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vessenes 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

It's a benefit corp

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xvector 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

They've been very clear about their mission, they're doing more than anyone else when it comes to it, and if you've ever interviewed with them you'd know how critical it is to them.

But I guess it's easier to make a glib comment than look these things up.

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lenerdenator 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Technically speaking, it's to maximize shareholder value while serving the public interest. They're a public benefit corporation.

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longfacehorrace an hour ago | parent [-]

OpenAI has "open" in their name but is closed off to public access and input

Google used to have a motto "don't be evil"

Who enforces the definition of language? Who demands compliance?

Soon as we go down the path of policing and insistence on one true dogma, we veer into religious holy war type behavior.

Obsession with semantics of syntax is a sort of theism even if the syntax and semantics do not refer to the commonly accepted tropes of a specific religion.

	▲	lenerdenator an hour ago \| parent [-]
		In this case, it has to do with how they're classified under Delaware law as a corporate entity. I'm not a lawyer (I don't even play one on TV, damn you Odenkirk) so I can't tell you what that means as far as case law for companies getting punished for behaving badly, but in this case, there is supposedly some sort of legal backing for the classification.

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saagarjha 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Friendly AI

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VirusNewbie an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Anthropic has one of the best moats of any business that's been created in the last 50 years.

Numerous companies have tried and failed competing with SoTA foundational models. If Anthropic had no moat, Apple and Meta wouldn't be paying them billions for coding asistance.

Meta, Amazon, Apple, and Nvidia would all have SoTA competitors to Claude. They all tried and have not produced a competitor.

Instead you have three companies that stand alone making billions from foundational models.