Anthropic’s Secret Weapon Is Its Manic Productivity: Parmy Olson

Silicon Valley’s most ideologically driven company may have become its most commercially dangerous.

This week’s $300 billion selloff of software and financial services stocks was apparently sparked by Anthropic PBC, and a new legal product the artificial intelligence startup had released. However pointless you may think it is to attribute market routs to a single trigger, the worry about Anthropic’s disruption puts a spotlight on its seemingly unstoppable productivity.

The company, which has roughly 2,000 employees, says it launched more than 30 products and features in January alone. On Thursday, it kept the momentum going with Claude Opus 4.6, a new model designed to handle knowledge-work tasks ...