Anthropic, a leader in the enterprise artificial intelligence sector, has made significant strides by acquiring Humanloop, a company known for developing tools that facilitate safe and scalable AI applications. Humanloop, founded in 2020 as a spinout from University College London, was co-founded by Raza Habib, Peter Hayes and Jordan Burgess. Fast forward to 2025, and Jake and his massively talented team of engineers and researchers found themselves at Anthropic as part of an acqui-hire deal.
This acquisition is particularly timely, as it adds needed enterprise-level talent to Anthropic, which has been growing quickly within the enterprise space. In a few short years, the company has established itself as the world leader in agentic and coding capabilities. Its revenue is through the roof, currently launching at a blistering annual pace of $4 billion. As competition intensifies among AI developers, including major players like OpenAI and Google DeepMind, Anthropic is strategically positioning itself to maintain its competitive edge.
Beyond this acquisition of Humanloop, Anthropic has recently locked in a major deal with the U.S. government’s central purchasing arm. This contract will allow Anthropic to provide its AI services to government agencies. In fact, for that first year, they will only have to cover the cost with a mere $1 per agency covered executive, judiciary and legislature. Besides valuing the partnership, this initiative further extends Anthropic’s overall market reach. It further helps the company’s perception as a reliable provider of generative AI solutions across government operations.
Anthropic recently announced they’re giving more advanced features to their enterprise clients, like longer context windows. This improvement dramatically increases the scope of its AI models’ capabilities and their applications. The combination of Humanloop’s evaluation and AI tooling expertise is set to amplify these capabilities even more.
Brad Abrams, Anthropic’s API product lead, acknowledged the importance of Humanloop’s team, stating, “Their proven experience in AI tooling and evaluation will be invaluable as we continue to advance our work in AI safety and building useful AI systems.”
Humanloop’s choice to wind down their day-to-day activity ahead of the acquisition speaks to how closely aligned the two firms are strategically. Raza Habib, the former CEO of Humanloop, emphasized this synergy by stating, “From our earliest days, we’ve been focused on creating tools that help developers build AI applications safely and effectively. Anthropic’s commitment to AI safety research and responsible AI development perfectly aligns with our vision.”
Anthropic is already making substantial improvements to their tooling ecosystem. The company’s focus on deepening its lead over competitors by offering differentiated solutions that meet enterprise customers’ needs is likely paying off. As TechCrunch reported this week, a growing number of enterprises are choosing Anthropic’s AI models. They are picking these models instead of the models from other vendors, such as OpenAI. This trend is a testament to Anthropic’s ability to inspire trust in businesses that they have the expertise and talent to create safe and effective AI tools.
The acquisition of Humanloop not only adds a skilled team to Anthropic but strengthens its mission of promoting responsible AI development. The enterprise AI landscape has changed drastically in the last couple years. Anthropic’s overall strategy gives them a great chance to succeed in this emerging market, one that requires powerful AI solutions.