Claude

Closed weights Anthropic March 2023

No estimate

No hardware requirements for this model

The weights for this model have not been published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any size. It is reachable only through its provider, and no graphics card changes that.

On record

Full specification

Everything on record for this model. Most of it describes how it was trained rather than how it runs — useful context for judging how much work went into it, and how it compares with models built at a different scale.

Origin

Who built this model, where, and when it was published.

Organisation
Anthropic
Organisation type
Industry
Country
United States of America
Published
14 March 2023

What it does

The problem areas the model was built for. A model can carry several of each.

Domain
Language
Task
Language modeling, Chat, Language modeling/generation, Question answering
Approach
Reinforcement learning

Size

How large the model is and how much data it was trained on. Parameters are the figure that decides whether it fits on a given graphics card.

Training data
tokens

Availability

Whether you can obtain the model and run it on your own hardware, which is what decides if any of the graphics-card figures on this page apply.

Weights
Closed — provider access only
Model access
API access
Training code
Unreleased

How it is classified

Labels the source dataset applies when tracking notable models, and how confident it is in the entry.

Foundation model
Yes
Likely above 10²³ FLOP
Yes
Why it is tracked
Historical significance,SOTA improvement

no standard benchmarks are cited

Record confidence
Unknown

Sources

Where this record came from and when it was last checked.

Reference
Introducing Claude
Last updated
28 November 2025

What the numbers mean

What this model is

Claude was published by Anthropic, in the country recorded as United States of America, during March 2023. It comes out of an organisation categorised as industry.

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as performing the task of language modeling, Chat, Language modeling/generation, Question answering.

Its weights were never published, so it can only be reached through its provider. No graphics card changes that.

What went into building it

Its inclusion criterion: historical significance,SOTA improvement.

Answers

Claude — common questions

01

Claude— is it open source?

No. Its weights have not been published, so it exists only as a service controlled by its owner.

02

Claude— how many parameters does it have?

No parameter count has been published for it, which is why no memory or speed figure appears on this page.

03

Claude— who created it?

It was published by Anthropic, based in United States of America, an organisation categorised as industry.

04

Claude— when was it released?

It was published in March 2023. Capability per parameter has improved considerably since, so a newer model of the same size is often the better use of the same hardware.

05

Claude— what is it used for?

It works in the domain of Language, and is recorded as handling the task of language modeling, Chat, Language modeling/generation, Question answering. These are the areas it was designed around; they describe intent rather than a hard boundary.

06

Claude— what GPU do I need to run it?

None. This is a closed model — its weights were never published, so it cannot be downloaded or run on your own hardware at any price. It is reachable only through its provider.

Source

Original publication

Record last updated 28 November 2025

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