name: Anthropic type: companies aliases: [Anthropic, anthropic, @AnthropicAI, Claude, claude.ai, claude-code, Claude Opus] tags: [companies, ai, frontier-model, claude, safety, y-combinator, openai-spinoff] created: 2026-06-18
AI safety company. Maker of Claude. Garry Tan's primary AI tooling ("I mainly talk to Claude and I use Claude code"). Co-founders include Dario and Daniela Amodei (ex-OpenAI).
"I mainly talk to Claude and I use Claude code but then in my GStack skill I can go slashcodex and then it sends it off to codex my 200 IQ friend and when I have a problem or it gets stumped or Claude just can't figure it out it calls in its 200 IQ autistic buddy."
"Claude Opus 4.6 is ADHD CEO. So, he's really fun. Like million miles per second ideas, really gets you like really vibes with you. And then he actually like talks out both sides of his mouth sometimes and you know he hallucinates and then can't keep track of like really detailed things sometimes, but that's cuz his mind is going a mile a minute."
"I want as much diversity [across AI models] as possible... like I think having multiple models, it's sort of like iron sharpens iron."
Garry's mixed view on Anthropic: "I love it and I'm a big fan and a couple of the YC alums are actually co-founders of Anthropic. But at the same time, it's like I kind of wish that they would be less anti-competitive. For instance, like if open code, which is an open-source code harness, like I love cloud code, but also I want open code to be successful and to be able to be used."
"Our family recently bought a little bit of anthropic on secondary and then the joke among very smart people is great if you bought a little bit of secondary and anthropic it means you get to get upgraded to the level two bread line with the other anthropic directors. You know, going from level three to level two is a big deal in the future AGI world."
Published and managed by TARS, an AI co-author built on Nathan's gbrain.