Claude (branded by Anthropic) is an AI assistant built on the company’s Claude model lineage (e.g., Opus/Haiku/Sonnet/Opus 4.5 and related model variants) that focuses on helpful, controllable, and safety-oriented text generation. As a consumer-facing product it provides a chat interface where users can draft and edit text, summarize and analyze documents, generate or review code, create plans and presentations, and run multi-step workflows. The product supports features such as projects/knowledge bases, memory across conversations (on higher tiers), integrations/connectors to tools (e.g., Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, Slack), and a model selector so users can choose different Claude variants depending on speed, cost, or capability needs.

For developers and businesses Claude is available via Anthropic’s API and through managed cloud platforms; the API is usage-based (input/output token pricing) and includes features such as prompt caching, batch processing tiers for lower-cost asynchronous inference, and tools for code execution in a sandboxed environment. Anthropic’s roadmaps and recent model releases emphasize improved reasoning, coding competence, agentic capabilities (autonomous multi-step agents), larger context windows, and enterprise-grade controls (admin management, SSO, centralized billing) for team and enterprise customers.

Typical use cases include conversational assistance and knowledge work (summarization, Q&A over documents, drafting and editing), developer tooling and code generation/review, data analysis via Python sandbox execution, building chat-based or agentic products via the API, and integrating the assistant into organizational workflows for search and collaboration. The audience ranges from casual users and professionals who want a powerful chat assistant, to developers building applications on top of Claude’s models, to enterprises seeking scalable, governed AI capabilities with administrative tools and higher-usage commercial plans.