Famous Claudes
This French Impressionist painted water lilies at his garden in Giverny.
Claude Monet
When an AI confidently makes something up, we borrow this word from psychiatry.
Hallucination
OpenAI's chatbot
ChatGPT
Claude's first public release came in this year, a few months after ChatGPT launched.
2023
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group who left this lab
OpenAI
Belgian action star famous for doing the splits in “Bloodsport” and “Kickboxer.”
Jean Claude Van Damme
The text you type to Claude goes by this name
Google's AI model is named for this zodiac sign, the twins.
Gemini
Claude 3 launched in 2024 with three sizes named Haiku, Sonnet, and Opus, all forms of this.
Poetry
CEO Dario and President Daniela are siblings who share this last name.
Amodei
This French composer wrote "Clair de Lune."
Claude Debussy
Models read text in small chunks that share their name with arcade coins.
Tokens
Meta's open-weight models share a name with this South American pack animal.
Llama
Launched in 2025, this Anthropic tool lets Claude read, write, and run code directly in your terminal.
Claude Code
"Anthropic" comes from the Greek "anthropos," meaning this.
Human
This MIT alum invented information theory, then spent his spare time building a juggling robot and a maze-solving mechanical mouse.
Claude Shannon
The T in GPT stands for this neural network architecture that Claude is also built on.
Transformer
Elon Musk's xAI named its model after a verb from Heinlein's "Stranger in a Strange Land" meaning to understand something completely.
Grok
In October 2024 Claude became the first major model to get this capability, letting it look at a screen, move the mouse, and click.
Computer Use
Anthropic's safety framework sorts models into risk tiers from ASL-1 to ASL-4. ASL stands for this.
AI Safety Level
Claude Rains starred in this 1933 Universal horror film, even though his face is on screen for only a few seconds.
The Invisible Man
The transformer was introduced in a 2017 Google paper with this five-word title, a play on a Beatles song.
"Attention Is All You Need"
This Paris-based AI lab is named after a cold, dry wind that blows down the Rhône valley.
Anthropic's open standard for connecting models to outside tools and data, abbreviated MCP.
Model Context Protocol
This Seattle company is Anthropic's largest investor, with up to $8 billion committed.
Amazon