Anthropic

The enterprise and coding-agent leader. Valued near $1T in May; IPO prospectus leaked at ~$2T, and investors now expect ~$1.5T for a November listing.

What it offers

Claude Fable 5.1

Top public tier (1 Sep). 1M-token context.

Claude Opus 5.5

Released today. Near-Fable quality at roughly 40% lower cost than Opus 5.

Sonnet 5.5 · Haiku 5.5

Sonnet 5.5 (28 Sep): 30%+ faster than Sonnet 5 at the same price. Haiku 5.5 (7 Oct): a tenth of Haiku 4.5's price, built for subagents and high volume.

Mythos 5.1

Restricted-access variant for vetted cyber, government and life-sciences users.

Claude app

Web, desktop and mobile. Since 16 Sep, one conversation can escalate from chat into long-running agent work.

Projects · Memory

Projects were redesigned 17 Sep with parallel threads and shared memory. Memory is user-controlled.

Artifacts · Docs · Slides · Dashboards · Motion

Interactive pages, documents and decks made in chat. Docs, Slides and Design left beta on 8 Oct; Dashboards (live, from warehouse data) and Motion (video explainers) are in beta.

Cowork

Agent for knowledge work across your files and connected apps; the agent mode of the Claude app. New Pro and Max tasks run in the cloud (since 6 Oct).

Claude in Chrome

Browser agent extension, generally available 26 Aug.

Claude Tag

Persistent team agent in Slack (beta, June).

Claude for Excel · Word · PowerPoint

Office add-ins, generally available since May. Outlook is in beta.

Claude Code

Agentic coding in the terminal, IDE, desktop and web, with subagents, hooks, skills and plugins. Code Review generally available 15 Oct.

Claude Design

Anthropic Labs tool (April). Makes prototypes, slides and one-pagers, then hands off to Claude Code.

Claude API · Agent SDK

Also sold through AWS, Google Cloud and Microsoft Foundry. The Agent SDK is the Claude Code harness as a library.

Managed Agents

Hosted agent runtime with sandbox and saved state (public beta, April).

Skills · MCP

Created both open standards: Agent Skills (SKILL.md) and the Model Context Protocol. MCP is now governed by the Linux Foundation.

Claude Science · Financial Advisors · Teachers · Small Business

Packaged editions launched June–September.

Claude Marketplace

2,000+ plugins, connectors and partner agents (23 Sep), built on MCP and Agent Skills.

Recent news

• 15 Oct 2026IPO investors temper expectations to about $1.5T from $2TQ3 revenue of $16.8B grew 45% but slowed; a November share sale is now referenced.Reuters ↗
• 7 Oct 2026Claude Haiku 5.5 launches at one tenth of Haiku 4.5's prices$0.10/$0.50 per million tokens and a big OSWorld jump; aimed at subagents and high-volume work.Let's Data Science ↗
• 29 Sep 2026Leaked IPO prospectus targets about $2TShows the scale of losses and growth behind the listing; an investor day followed.Fortune ↗
• 28 Sep 2026Claude Sonnet 5.5 released, a week after Opus 5.530%+ faster than Sonnet 5 at the same list price and close to Opus 5.5 on agentic work.ITdaily ↗
• 23 Sep 2026Claude Marketplace opens with 2,000+ plugins, connectors and partner agentsAnthropic's answer to OpenAI's plugin store, built on MCP and Agent Skills.BleepingComputer ↗
• 18 Sep 2026Anthropic on track for over $100B annualized revenue this yearHuge revenue scale backs its case as a top frontier lab ahead of an IPO that could come as soon as NovemberBloomberg ↗
• 1 Sep 2026Claude Fable 5.1, Mythos 5.1 and Enterprise Frontier Safeguards launch togetherA three-part release that combines model upgrades with enterprise safety controls, which analysts read as groundwork for the IPOYahoo Finance ↗
• 1 Jun 2026Anthropic confidentially files draft S-1 for an IPOStarts SEC review for what could be one of the largest AI listings. It came four days after the $965B Series HCNBC ↗
• 28 May 2026Anthropic raises $65B at close to a $1T valuationThe $965B post-money Series H puts Anthropic among the most valuable private companies in the worldTechCrunch ↗
• 28 May 2026Claude Opus 4.8 ships with a dynamic workflow toolBetter at agentic coding and can run hundreds of parallel subagents at the same price. Mythos-class models promised to all customersTechCrunch ↗
• 21 Apr 2026Unauthorized group reportedly gained access to restricted Mythos modelThe breach came through a third-party vendor and showed how hard it is to keep powerful cyber-capable models containedTechCrunch ↗
• 7 Apr 2026Claude Mythos Preview launches under Project Glasswing cyber-defense coalitionAn unreleased model that finds zero-days, shared with AWS, Apple, Google, Microsoft and NVIDIA to secure critical softwareAnthropic ↗