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Anthropic

Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol as a standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools.

Primary category
AI Infrastructure
Audience
Developers, Enterprises, Operators
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Unknown
Funding
Unknown
Last verified
2026-06-08

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Verified June 8, 2026
Last verified
June 8, 2026
Last updated
June 7, 2026

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Tool Portfolio

Claude

Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model and introduced Claude Code, an agentic command-line coding tool, in research preview.

Claude API

Anthropic introduced web search on the API so developers can build Claude applications that retrieve and cite current web information.

Model Context Protocol

Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol as a standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools.

Launch History

AI Coding Tools

Claude Opus 4.1

Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.1 as an upgrade to Opus 4 for agentic tasks, real-world coding, and reasoning.

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Important as a model-quality update because small frontier upgrades can materially change coding-agent reliability.

AI Infrastructure

Introducing web search on the Anthropic API

Anthropic introduced web search on the API so developers can build Claude applications that retrieve and cite current web information.

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Worth tracking because current-information retrieval is core infrastructure for useful agents.

AI Search Tools

Claude can now search the web

Anthropic added web search to Claude, enabling current web retrieval, source citations, and source-backed answers inside Claude conversations.

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An important AI search record because it brought current, cited web information to Claude and made Anthropic part of the search-and-research workflow race.

AI Coding Tools

Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code

Anthropic launched Claude 3.7 Sonnet as a hybrid reasoning model and introduced Claude Code, an agentic command-line coding tool, in research preview.

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A priority coding launch because it paired a stronger reasoning model with an actual developer agent surface, making Claude more central to software-building workflows.

AI Infrastructure

Introducing the Model Context Protocol

Anthropic open-sourced the Model Context Protocol as a standard for connecting AI assistants to external data sources and tools.

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One of the most important infrastructure launches because it gave AI tools a shared connector pattern.

AI Browser Agents

Computer use, upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet, and Claude 3.5 Haiku

Anthropic introduced computer use in public beta alongside an upgraded Claude 3.5 Sonnet and the new Claude 3.5 Haiku model.

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A key agent infrastructure launch because it made GUI control a public frontier-model capability.

AI Productivity Tools

Collaborate with Claude on Projects

Anthropic launched Projects in Claude.ai, letting Pro and Team users organize chats and knowledge into persistent workspaces.

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Worth tracking because persistent project context became a major differentiator for productivity assistants.

AI Productivity Tools

Claude 3.5 Sonnet

Anthropic launched Claude 3.5 Sonnet, the first release in the Claude 3.5 model family, with strong intelligence, coding, vision, and API availability.

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A foundational Claude record because Sonnet 3.5 shaped the competitive model landscape through late 2024.