Anthropic is currently focused on research and development rather than deployment of products for revenue.

Judge as of 2022-03-04. True: evidence from around that date (company statements, filings, press coverage, product records) shows Anthropic's activity was research and development and it had no commercially deployed product or revenue-generating offering (e.g., no public paid API or product). Mostly true: R&D was clearly the main focus but there was minor or limited deployment, such as a small pilot or early-access program, that did not amount to a product deployment for revenue. Mixed: R&D and product deployment were both substantial activities at that date. Mostly false: Anthropic was already substantially engaged in commercial deployment, with R&D a secondary or co-equal priority. False: Anthropic had a publicly launched revenue-generating product by 2022-03-04.

Set before the research began.

1. E1 Anthropic's core views on AI safety Anthropic · 8 March 2023 Own record

   “We trained the first version of our headline model, Claude, in the spring of 2022, and decided to prioritize using it for safety research rather than public deployments.”

2. E2 Anthropic launches Claude, a chatbot to rival OpenAI's ChatGPT | TechCrunch TechCrunch · 14 March 2023

   “Following a closed beta late last year, Anthropic has been quietly testing Claude with launch partners, including Robin AI, AssemblyAI, Notion, Quora and DuckDuckGo.”

3. E3 Introducing Claude Anthropic · 14 March 2023 Own record

   “After working for the past few months with key partners like Notion, Quora, and DuckDuckGo in a closed alpha, we’ve been able to carefully test out our systems in the wild”

E2, an independent source, reports that Anthropic launched Claude in March 2023 after a closed beta in late 2022. That places its first external deployment well after 2022-03-04. E1, Anthropic's own later account, says the first Claude model was trained in spring 2022 and used for safety research rather than public deployment, and E3 describes the pre-launch phase as a closed alpha of a few months. Together these show the company was focused on research and development, with no commercially deployed product, as of March 2022.