[pbreit]

What was their original mission?

My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

[s_dev]

>What was their original mission?

Beat OpenAI. The Founders came from OpenAI so there was obviously some disagreement about the direction there or they simply wanted more control.

[dbbk]

Google will beat OpenAI on general AI. Anthropic have wisely leaned into the thing they're best at, which is coding.

[dude250711]

To maximise shareholder value.

[lenerdenator]

Technically speaking, it's to maximize shareholder value while serving the public interest. They're a public benefit corporation.

[vessenes]

It's a benefit corp

[xvector]

They've been very clear about their mission, they're doing more than anyone else when it comes to it, and if you've ever interviewed with them you'd know how critical it is to them.

But I guess it's easier to make a glib comment than look these things up.

[saagarjha]

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