Anthropic is scaling its operations to compete with OpenAI while maintaining its commitment to safe and ethical AI development. The company operates as a Public Benefit Corporation (PBC), a legal structure that mandates prioritizing public good alongside shareholder profits.
This safety-centric strategy targets the enterprise market, where corporate demand for reliability and compliance reportedly drives rapid revenue growth. Former OpenAI researchers founded Anthropic to avoid commercial pressures, establishing a safety-first ethos guided by a publicly available Constitution.
The company aims to produce AI that is helpful, honest, and harmless through specialized product development and corporate governance. The intensifying AI arms race raises questions regarding whether Anthropic’s PBC structure can withstand profit-driven incentives and the massive capital requirements of frontier AI development.