Claude is an advanced AI chatbot and family of large language models designed to understand, generate, and analyze human language to help users with tasks like writing, coding, research, and problem solving. Developed by the company Anthropic and released in 2023, Claude works through the website claude.ai or via integrations and APIs, offering capabilities such as answering questions, summarizing documents, generating text, translating languages, and assisting with programming tasks. It is built using a safety-focused approach called “constitutional AI,” which guides how it responds to ensure helpful, honest, and less harmful outputs. Claude is widely used by individuals and businesses for productivity, content creation, and data analysis, and competes with tools like ChatGPT and Google Gemini.