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Anthropic · Developer APIs
Platform leverage · updated 2026-06-01
The developer's favorite API: clean tool use, strong agents, available via AWS and GCP.
Breadth, quality, and economics of the APIs developers build on. Tool use, structured output, fine-tuning, embeddings, agent frameworks: the leverage that turns a model into a platform.
- MarketLeaders, gainers and unexpected winners in the Enterprise AI arms raceAndreessen Horowitz (a16z) · 2026-01-30
An enterprise survey: OpenAI still leads adoption but Anthropic and Google gain fast, a multi-vendor oligopoly.
- NewsOpenAI, Anthropic, and Block join Linux Foundation effort to standardize the AI agent eraTechCrunch · 2025-12-09
Anthropic donates MCP to the new Agentic AI Foundation, so MCP shifts from vendor project to neutral infrastructure.
- PrimaryDonating the Model Context Protocol and establishing the Agentic AI FoundationAnthropic · 2025-12-09
Anthropic hands MCP to a Linux Foundation fund to keep it open amid 97M+ monthly SDK downloads.
- PrimaryOne Year of MCP: November 2025 Spec ReleaseModel Context Protocol · 2025-11-25
MCP's rise from open-source experiment to de facto standard adopted across OpenAI, Microsoft, GitHub, and Google.
- PrimaryCode execution with MCP: Building more efficient agentsAnthropic Engineering · 2025-11-04
Presenting MCP servers as code APIs cuts agent token usage by up to 98.7% by loading only needed tools.
- AnalysisAI Engineering Goes MainstreamLatent Space · 2025-06-13
AI engineering matures into a vertical; agents, reasoning, and orchestration tooling are the practical frontier.
- AnalysisAgents are models using tools in a loopSimon Willison · 2025-05-22
A crisp working definition of an agent that clarifies the core mechanism behind the agentic-platform shift.
- AnalysisModel Context Protocol has prompt injection security problemsSimon Willison · 2025-04-09
How MCP's open tool model enables prompt-injection and 'rug pull' mutations: the security tax of the standard.
- AnalysisWhy MCP WonLatent Space · 2025-03-10
MCP became the de facto agent-integration standard via AI-native design, Anthropic's developer brand, and first-party tooling.
- NewsAnthropic says 80% of its new production code is now authored by ClaudeVentureBeat
Anthropic claims Claude now authors most of its own production code, and what agentic coding means for enterprises.