Claude Instant
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A to Z
- A · App
- Yes
- B · Built By
- Anthropic
- C · CEO & Politics
- Dario Amodei — Pro-AI-regulation; first-ever $1M personal donation to bipartisan Public First super PAC (Jul 2026); otherwise avoids partisan politics
- D · Date
- 2023
- E · Expertise
- Beginner (app available)
- F · Free Tier
- Yes
- G · Generates
- Text only
- H · Deployment
- Cloud
- I · Inputs
- Text
- J · Jurisdiction
- USA
- K · Key Staffers
- Daniela Amodei (President & Co-Founder), Jack Clark (Co-Founder, Policy), Tom Brown (Co-Founder), Sam McCandlish (Co-Founder), Jared Kaplan (Co-Founder, Chief Science Officer), Mike Krieger (Labs), Paul Smith (CCO)
- L · Languages
- English-primary
- M · Model Type
- LLM
- N · Safety Issues
- None reported
- O · Open Source
- Proprietary
- P · Pricing
- Retired (Claude API retired Claude Instant on Nov 6, 2024)
- Q · AIDb Rating
- 4/10 · AIDb v2.0 (curated): Capability 2.5/10 · Currency 4/10 · Access 7/10 · Significance 5/10 → 3.85
- R · What Makes It Special
- Anthropic's Claude Instant, the lighter, less expensive and much faster sibling of Claude launched March 14, 2023 for tasks such as casual dialogue, text analysis, summarization and document comprehension; version 1.2 (August 2023) drew on Claude 2's strengths, raising Codex coding scores from 52.8% to 58.7% and GSM8K math from 80.9% to 86.7%, with fewer hallucinations. All Claude Instant models were retired November 6, 2024.
- S · Stock / Status
- Private ($380B valuation, Feb 2026); confidentially filed for IPO Jun 1, 2026
- T · Training Cutoff
- [UNKNOWN]
- U · Users
- [UNKNOWN]
- V · Voice Chat
- No
- W · Weights
- API only
- X · X Handle
- @AnthropicAI
- Y · Year Founded
- [UNKNOWN]
- Z · Bottom Line
- Proprietary LLM from Anthropic, released 2023.
Data completeness 88% · Last verified 2026-08-09 · Primary source ↗
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“Claude Instant.” AIDb — The AI Database. Verified 2026-08-09. https://theaidatabase.com/m/claude-instant.html
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