In the last two months alone, Anthropic pushed out more than 50 updates to Claude Code. And with each update comes new documentation, published on its website, that explains what’s new and how it works.

Traditionally, the blog posts, FAQs and instruction manuals that companies publish along with a new product or software updates were written by people. But in 2024 Anthropic turned to AI startup Mintlify, which generates and maintains documents related to software, including user guides, directories of codebases and technical overviews. The startup uses AI models to generate the documents directly from the code as well as automatically update them every time a product is updated or released.

Not properly explaining how to use a new product is “actually not that different from the product not existing at all,” says Mintlify cofounder and CEO Han Wang.

Mintlify’s AI system is already used by 20,000 companies, including blue chip firms like PayPal, Coinbase, Microsoft and Amazon. Along with generating documentation, it also has a chatbot that lives on a customers’ website, which can answer people’s questions about the best way to use any given product.

The San Francisco-based startup announced Tuesday that it has raised $45 million at a $500 million valuation in a Series B round co-led by Andreessen Horowitz and Salesforce Ventures with participation from Bain Capital Ventures, Y Combinator and DST Global.

As AI agents increasingly interact with software, having accurate and up-to-date documentation is even more important so that agents have all the right information they need to carry out a specific action, like surf the web or make a........

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