01.AI vs Anthropic

01.AI — Foundation Models · Private · 1 of 1 figure sourced  |  Anthropic — Foundation Models · Private · $965B valuation · 5 of 5 figures sourced

Relationship

Yi and Claude API both serve buyers who need to build on a hosted model API; 01.AI's scale not recorded.

Assembled from the recorded fields for this pair, not hand-checked. The comparison below is read from each company’s own profile.

5 of 7 capabilitiesShared product type

5 of 7 capabilities — Shares agent orchestration, data analysis, model inference and 2 more.

Ludbee capability tags · from the product records

Shared product type — Both ship application and model API.

Ludbee product records

Aligned comparison

Field01.AIAnthropic
Sizenot disclosed$965B valuation
Employees—2,500
Founded20232021 2 yrs earlier
StatusPrivatePrivate match
CategoryFoundation ModelsFoundation Models match
Stack layerApplication, Model API, PlatformAI agent, Agent platform, Application, Developer tool, Model API
HeadquartersBeijing, ChinaSan Francisco, USA

Capability overlap

Shared · 5

Agent orchestrationData analysisModel inferenceText generationWorkflow automation

Not verified for Anthropic · 2

Financial analysisSales outreach

Recorded for 01.AI. Anthropic’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Not verified for 01.AI · 11

Agentic codingCode generationCode reviewDocument extractionEmail assistanceGuardrails and safetyPresentation generationKnowledge retrievalSummarizationThreat detection and responseSearch answers

Recorded for Anthropic. 01.AI’s product records say nothing either way — a missing record is not a missing capability.

Products, side by side

Algorithmic pairing — assembled from recorded fields, not hand-checked

01.AI

Application

Boss AIApplication

Agent product for executives that turns company data into tracked decisions and action items.

Investor AIApplication

A decision platform for investment, M&A and strategic-opportunity judgment that integrates market, financial and research data, validates investment theses, and surfaces due-diligence risks for investment committees.

TopSales AIApplication

Agent product for sales teams covering lead research, outreach and follow-up.

Model API

YiModel API

01.AI's open-weight large language model family (Yi-6B/9B/34B, including 200K-context variants), released under Apache 2.0 for commercial and research use; also served through 01.AI's own hosted platform, platform.lingyiwanwu.com, whose playground access is by whitelist application rather than public self-serve.

Anthropic

Application

ClaudeApplication

Assistant for chat, document analysis and coding, used in the browser and in desktop and mobile apps.

Claude DesignApplication

Lets users collaborate with Claude to create on-brand visual work (decks, prototypes, wireframes, marketing collateral) with design-system import and Claude Code integration via /design-sync.

Claude ScienceApplication

Desktop application for scientific research that runs analyses, searches scientific databases and traces work from data wrangling through to publication.

Claude SecurityApplication

Application that scans codebases for high-severity vulnerabilities, validates findings by adversarial verification and recommends patches for review, with a companion Claude Code plugin.

Claude for Microsoft 365Application

Claude working inside Excel, PowerPoint, Word and Outlook with context carried across the documents — preserving templates and house styles and showing every edit as tracked changes, highlighted cells or draft emails.

Claude for SlackApplication

Claude tagged as @Claude inside Slack threads and channels: it reads thread context and replies in real time, analyses conversations, pulls data, drafts content, monitors channels, triages alerts and runs standing instructions without leaving Slack.

Model API

Claude APIModel API

Hosted API for the Claude models, billed per token.

No counterpart

01.AI sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for Anthropic yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

Platform

TrueNorth AI Decision PlatformPlatform

Platform for building enterprise decision and analysis agents on 01.AI's models.

Anthropic sells these in a stack layer with no product recorded for 01.AI yet — nothing on the other side to compare them against.

AI agent

Claude CodeAI agent

Coding agent that works on a codebase from the terminal, an IDE extension and a desktop app.

Claude CoworkAI agent

Agentic task app in which Claude works asynchronously across a user's files and tools toward a stated goal, checked in on from desktop, web or phone.

Claude in ChromeAI agent

Browser extension that lets Claude act inside Chrome on the user's behalf — reading pages, clicking, typing and filling forms to work through multi-step web tasks without approving each step, with the user keeping control of what it may do.

Agent platform

Claude Managed AgentsAgent platform

Hosted API offering a pre-built configurable agent harness with managed sandboxes and persistent sessions for long-running asynchronous agent tasks, billed separately from token usage.

Developer tool

Claude Agent SDKDeveloper tool

Python and TypeScript library that runs the same agent loop, tools and context management that power Claude Code, so developers can embed the loop in their own process rather than calling the API directly.