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Architecture comparison

AI21 Labs vs Anthropic

AI21 Labs runs closer to the foundational model (Native (own / self-hosted weights)) than Anthropic (Native (own / self-hosted weights)). No shared foundational model — different bets.

AI21 Labs

AI/LLM

Proximity
Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Models
proprietary / self-built models
Cloud · datastore
Multi-Cloud
Compliance
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Architecture

AI21 Labs develops and serves its own Jamba family of LLMs and related services via its AI21 Studio API and private deployments, while also distributing Jamba models through third‑party clouds such as Azure and upcoming NVIDIA APIs.[5][6][7] Public materials describe deployment options across public cloud and private/on‑prem environments but do not reveal a full production stack beyond this high‑level multi‑cloud posture.[3][5][6]

Anthropic

AI/LLM

Proximity
Native (own / self-hosted weights)
Models
Anthropic · Claude
Cloud · datastore
Multi-CloudPostgreSQL[13]vector databases (e.g., Qdrant)[4][13]Redis/Valkey (cache)[5][9][13]object storage (cloud blob storage, e.g., S3/GCS)[1][13]
Compliance
SOC 2 (inferred, typical for enterprise AI SaaS; not explicitly confirmed)[2][3]ISO 27001 (inferred, typical for scale enterprise workloads; not explicitly confirmed)[2][3]privacy-preserving sandbox perimeter for agents (policy/architecture control rather than formal cert)[2][11]network, application, and API security enforcement via distributed infrastructure (Akamai)[12]
Architecture

Anthropic runs **Claude** and related services on a safety-first **multi-cloud** compute fabric spanning AWS Trainium2, Google TPUv7 and NVIDIA GPUs, fronted by Kubernetes‑based microservices (API gateways, orchestration, rate limiting, caching, and safety filters), with state held in PostgreSQL, vector stores, Redis, and cloud object storage.[1][10][13] Production offerings like Claude API and Managed Agents expose a fully managed orchestration and agent runtime, while emerging self‑hosted sandboxes move tool execution into customer infrastructure but keep Claude inference, routing, and session state on Anthropic’s cloud.[2][3][11]

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