A general-purpose LLM family made by Anthropic.
Claude is the quiet kid in the group project. It brings the neat binder and reads the instructions.
People use it for long writing. They also use it to read documents and help with code. It fits teams that want a steady AI assistant.
LLM
Claude belongs to the LLM family.
ChatGPT
People often compare Claude with ChatGPT.
API
Developers call Claude through an API.
Frontier model
Claude is often grouped with frontier models.