claude-launched-march-14-2023
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Claude was launched on March 14, 2023, with the first public version (Claude 2) released in July 2023.
Summary
This pins down two key dates that anchor the timeline of the system: when it first came into existence in early March 2023 and when the general public first got hands-on access to a released version a few months later. It matters because any reasoning about version history, capability changes, or "what was available when" depends on these reference points being fixed and unambiguous.