How do you pronounce the name of Anthropic's series of LLMs?

Question

How do you say "Claude?" Do you say "clawed" or "cloud"? I'm American but I use the latter pronunciation for some strange reason. This seems to throw a lot of people and is homophonic with another industry buzzword so I've been trying (unsuccessfully) to change it up. Is there perhaps a more esoteric pronunciation available that I can lean into to sound sophisticated?There's a lot of heavy AI and LLM discourse happening right now but everybody seems to be avoiding this hard-hitting topic. I think it merits discussion.

german_dong · Accepted Answer

I say "clawed" only because that's how it's pronounced.

enz · Answer

I say Claude like this: /klod/ which is the French standard pronunciation for this name. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(given_name)

apothegm · Answer

It&rsquo;s a real name (French in origin, but not uncommon in English). It&rsquo;s pronounced &ldquo;clawed&rdquo;.