May 13, 2026 Announcements Introducing Claude for Small Business

May 6, 2026 Announcements Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX

Higher usage limits for Claude and a compute deal with SpaceX We’ve agreed to a partnership with SpaceX that will substantially increase our compute capacity. This, along with our other recent compute deals, means that we’ve been able to increase our usage limits for Claude Code and the Claude API. Below, we describe these changes and the progress we’re making on compute. Higher usage limits The following three changes—all effective today—are aimed at improving the experience of using Claude for our most dedicated customers. First, we’re doubling Claude Code’s five-hour rate limits for Pro, Max, Team, and seat-based Enterprise plans. Second, we’re removing the peak hours limit reduction on Claude Code for Pro and Max accounts. Third, we’re raising our API rate limits considerably for Claude Opus models, as shown in the table below: New compute partnership with SpaceX We’ve…

May 4, 2026 Announcements Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs

Building a new enterprise AI services company with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs Anthropic, Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs announced the formation of a new AI services company. The organization will work with mid-sized companies across sectors to bring Claude into their most important operations. Applied AI engineers from Anthropic will work alongside the firm’s engineering team to identify where Claude can have the most impact, build custom solutions, and support customers over the long term. Alongside the founding partners, the new company is backed by a consortium of leading alternative asset managers including General Atlantic, Leonard Green, Apollo Global Management, GIC, and Sequoia Capital. Why we’re building this Putting Claude to work in an organization’s core operations takes hands-on engineering and deep familiarity with how each business runs. Systems integrators in the Claude Partner Network…

May 5, 2026 Announcements Agents for financial services

Agents for financial services We’re releasing ten ready-to-run agent templates for the most time-consuming work in financial services: building pitchbooks, screening KYC files, and closing the books at month-end. Each one ships as a plugin in Claude Cowork and Claude Code, and as a cookbook for Claude Managed Agents, so a team can put Claude on real financial work in days rather than months. Claude also now works across Microsoft Excel, PowerPoint, Word, and Outlook (coming soon) through the Claude add-ins for Microsoft 365. Once the add-ins are installed, context carries automatically between applications, so work that starts in a model can end in a deck without re-explaining anything in between. Finally, we’re continuing to expand our partner ecosystem with new connectors and an MCP app, so the agents draw on the data financial professionals already use. Connectors give Claude…

Apr 28, 2026 Announcements Claude for Creative Work

Claude for Creative Work Creative professionals look to technology to expand what's possible in their work. Claude can't replace taste or imagination, but it can open up new ways of working—faster and more ambitious ideation, a more expansive skill set, and the ability for creatives to take on larger-scale projects. AI can also help shoulder the parts of the creative process that eat up time by handling repetitive tasks and eliminating manual toil. Key to both these goals is integrating Claude into the tools the creative industry already knows and trusts. Today, with a coalition of partners including Blender, Autodesk, Adobe, Ableton, and Splice, we’re releasing a set of connectors—tools that let Claude work alongside the software creative professionals rely on, so creatives can extend their reach. Connecting Claude to creative tools Connectors allow Claude to access other platforms and…

Apr 27, 2026 Announcements Anthropic names Theo Hourmouzis General Manager of Australia & New Zealand and officially opens Sydney office

Anthropic names Theo Hourmouzis General Manager of Australia & New Zealand and officially opens Sydney office Theo Hourmouzis is joining Anthropic as General Manager of Australia and New Zealand, marking the next step in our investment in the region. Hourmouzis will meet with customers and partners this week alongside executives from our global team, as we officially open our Sydney office. Hourmouzis brings more than 20 years of leadership experience in the technology industry across Asia Pacific to the role. He joins us from Snowflake, where he most recently served as Senior Vice President for Australia, New Zealand and ASEAN, helping enterprise and public sector organisations across financial services, retail, aviation and government move AI from experimentation to business impact. At Anthropic, he'll lead our growing local team and shape a strategy built around Australian and New Zealand customers, bringing…

Apr 24, 2026 Announcements Anthropic and NEC collaborate to build Japan’s largest AI engineering workforce

Anthropic and NEC collaborate to build Japan’s largest AI engineering workforce NEC Corporation will use Claude as it builds one of Japan’s largest AI-native engineering organizations, making it available to approximately 30,000 NEC Group employees worldwide. As part of this strategic collaboration, NEC will become Anthropic’s first Japan-based global partner. Together, we will develop secure, industry-specific AI products for the Japanese market, starting with tools for finance, manufacturing, and local government. “This long-term partnership with Anthropic enables NEC to maximize the potential of AI in the Japanese market,” said Toshifumi Yoshizaki, Executive Officer and COO of NEC Corporation. “Together, we aim to create solutions that meet the high safety, reliability, and quality standards demanded by companies and public administration in Japan.” Claude for NEC’s customers NEC and Anthropic will jointly develop secure, domain-specific AI products for Japanese customers in sectors…

Apr 24, 2026 Announcements An update on our election safeguards

An update on our election safeguards People around the world turn to Claude for information about political parties, candidates, and the issues at stake during election time—as well as to answer simpler questions like when, where, and how to vote. In our view, if AI models can answer these questions well (that is, accurately and impartially), they can be a positive force for the democratic process. Here, we explain what we’re doing to help Claude meet the mark ahead of the US midterms and other major elections around the world this year. Measuring and preventing political bias When people ask Claude about political topics, they should get comprehensive, accurate, and balanced responses—responses that help them reach their own conclusions, rather than steer them toward a particular viewpoint. That’s why we train Claude to treat different political viewpoints with equal depth,…

Apr 20, 2026 Announcements Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute

Anthropic and Amazon expand collaboration for up to 5 gigawatts of new compute We have signed a new agreement with Amazon that will deepen our existing partnership and secure up to 5 gigawatts (GW) of capacity for training and deploying Claude, including new Trainium2 capacity coming online in the first half of this year and nearly 1GW total of Trainium2 and Trainium3 capacity coming online by the end of 2026. We have worked closely with Amazon since 2023 and over 100,000 customers now run Claude on Amazon Bedrock. Together we launched Project Rainier, one of the largest compute clusters in the world, and we currently use over one million Trainium2 chips to train and serve Claude. Today’s agreement expands our collaboration in three ways. Infrastructure at scale. We are committing more than $100 billion over the next ten years to…

Product Apr 17, 2026 Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more.

Introducing Claude Design by Anthropic Labs Today, we’re launching Claude Design, a new Anthropic Labs product that lets you collaborate with Claude to create polished visual work like designs, prototypes, slides, one-pagers, and more. Claude Design is powered by our most capable vision model, Claude Opus 4.7, and is available in research preview for Claude Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise subscribers. We’re rolling out to users gradually throughout the day. Design with Claude Even experienced designers have to ration exploration—there's rarely time to prototype a dozen directions, so you limit yourself to a few. And for founders, product managers, and marketers with an idea but not a design background, creating and sharing those ideas can be daunting. Claude Design gives designers room to explore widely and everyone else a way to produce visual work. Describe what you need and Claude…

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Product Apr 16, 2026 Our latest Opus model brings stronger performance across coding, agents, vision, and multi-step tasks, with greater thoroughness and consistency on the work that matters most.

Introducing Claude Opus 4.7 Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.7, is now generally available. Opus 4.7 is a notable improvement on Opus 4.6 in advanced software engineering, with particular gains on the most difficult tasks. Users report being able to hand off their hardest coding work—the kind that previously needed close supervision—to Opus 4.7 with confidence. Opus 4.7 handles complex, long-running tasks with rigor and consistency, pays precise attention to instructions, and devises ways to verify its own outputs before reporting back. The model also has substantially better vision: it can see images in greater resolution. It’s more tasteful and creative when completing professional tasks, producing higher-quality interfaces, slides, and docs. And—although it is less broadly capable than our most powerful model, Claude Mythos Preview—it shows better results than Opus 4.6 across a range of benchmarks: Last week we announced…

Apr 14, 2026 Announcements Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors

Anthropic’s Long-Term Benefit Trust appoints Vas Narasimhan to Board of Directors Vas Narasimhan has been appointed to Anthropic's Board of Directors by the Anthropic Long-Term Benefit Trust. He is a physician-scientist and the Chief Executive Officer of Novartis—one of the world's leading innovative medicines companies—and shares Anthropic’s conviction that healthcare and life sciences are among the areas where AI has the greatest potential to improve the quality of human life. “Vas brings something rare to our board. He's overseen the development and approval of more than 35 novel medicines for the benefit of patients around the world in one of the most regulated industries,” said Daniela Amodei, Co-founder and President of Anthropic. “Getting powerful new technology to people safely and at scale is what we think about every day at Anthropic. Vas has been doing exactly that for years, and…

Apr 6, 2026 Announcements Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute

Anthropic expands partnership with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation compute We have signed a new agreement with Google and Broadcom for multiple gigawatts of next-generation TPU capacity that we expect to come online starting in 2027. This significant expansion of our compute infrastructure will power our frontier Claude models and help us serve extraordinary demand from customers worldwide. “This groundbreaking partnership with Google and Broadcom is a continuation of our disciplined approach to scaling infrastructure: we are building the capacity necessary to serve the exponential growth we have seen in our customer base while also enabling Claude to define the frontier of AI development,” said Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic. “We are making our most significant compute commitment to date to keep pace with our unprecedented growth.” Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate…

Mar 31, 2026 Announcements Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research

Australian government and Anthropic sign MOU for AI safety and research Today, Anthropic signed a Memorandum of Understanding with the Australian government to cooperate on AI safety research and support the goals of Australia’s National AI Plan. Our CEO, Dario Amodei, met with Prime Minister Anthony Albanese to formalize the agreement during a visit to Canberra, Australia. We also announced AUD$3 million in partnerships with leading Australian research institutions to use Claude to improve disease diagnosis and treatment and support computer science education and research. Central to the MOU is a commitment to work with Australia’s AI Safety Institute. We will share our findings on emerging model capabilities and risks, participate in joint safety and security evaluations, and collaborate on research with Australian academic institutions. This mirrors the arrangements we have with safety institutes in the US, UK, and Japan,…

Mar 12, 2026 Announcements Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network

Anthropic invests $100 million into the Claude Partner Network We’re launching the Claude Partner Network, a program for partner organizations helping enterprises adopt Claude. We’re committing an initial $100 million to support our partners with training courses, dedicated technical support, and joint market development. Partners who join from today will get immediate access to a new technical certification and be eligible for investment. Anthropic is focused on ensuring that our AI model, Claude, serves the needs of businesses. To do this, we’ve partnered with a number of other companies. Notably, Claude is the only frontier AI model available on all three leading cloud providers: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft. We also work with large management consultancies, professional services firms, specialist AI firms, and similar agencies. These organizations help our enterprise customers identify where Claude can provide the most value to…

Mar 11, 2026 Announcements Introducing The Anthropic Institute

Introducing The Anthropic Institute We’re launching The Anthropic Institute, a new effort to confront the most significant challenges that powerful AI will pose to our societies. The Anthropic Institute will draw on research from across Anthropic to provide information that other researchers and the public can use during our transition to a world containing much more powerful AI systems. In the five years since Anthropic began, AI progress has moved incredibly quickly. It took us two years to release our first commercial model, and just three more to develop models that can discover severe cybersecurity vulnerabilities, take on a wide range of real work, and even begin to accelerate the pace of AI development itself. We predict that far more dramatic progress will follow in the next two years. One of our company’s core convictions is that AI development is…

Announcements Feb 4, 2026 Claude is a space to think We’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. We explain why advertising incentives are incompatible with a genuinely helpful AI assistant, and how we plan to expand access without compromising user trust.

Claude is a space to think There are many good places for advertising. A conversation with Claude is not one of them. Advertising drives competition, helps people discover new products, and allows services like email and social media to be offered for free. We’ve run our own ad campaigns, and our AI models have, in turn, helped many of our customers in the advertising industry. But including ads in conversations with Claude would be incompatible with what we want Claude to be: a genuinely helpful assistant for work and for deep thinking. We want Claude to act unambiguously in our users’ interests. So we’ve made a choice: Claude will remain ad-free. Our users won’t see “sponsored” links adjacent to their conversations with Claude; nor will Claude’s responses be influenced by advertisers or include third-party product placements our users did not…

Responsible Scaling Policy

Announcing our updated Responsible Scaling Policy Today we are publishing a significant update to our Responsible Scaling Policy (RSP), the risk governance framework we use to mitigate potential catastrophic risks from frontier AI systems. This update introduces a more flexible and nuanced approach to assessing and managing AI risks while maintaining our commitment not to train or deploy models unless we have implemented adequate safeguards. Key improvements include new capability thresholds to indicate when we will upgrade our safeguards, refined processes for evaluating model capabilities and the adequacy of our safeguards (inspired by safety case methodologies), and new measures for internal governance and external input. By learning from our implementation experiences and drawing on risk management practices used in other high-consequence industries, we aim to better prepare for the rapid pace of AI advancement. The promise and challenge of advanced…