Artificial Intelligence Start-up Anthropic said on Monday that it had completed a new fund raising deal, which gave the company a price of $ 61.5 billion, which was more than $ 16 billion a year ago.
Under the leadership of Venture Capital firm LightSpeed Venture Partners, the new round will pump an additional $ 3.5 billion in the company. Since its establishment in 2021, Anthropic has increased over $ 14.8 billion from venture firms such as Amazon, Google and Salesforce such as Amazon, Google and Cellsforce.
The deal comes amidst the increase in funding activity for the industry’s most prominent AI start-up. Openai is ready to fulfill the $ 40 billion fund-tingling deal, which will give the company a price of $ 300 billion, which will double the evaluation of it only five months in advance. Elon Musk’s XAI is interacting for a new financing round, which can give it a higher price as $ 75 billion, two months ago from about 40 billion dollars, two people said with knowledge of discussion.
Openai introduced the AI boom with the release of Chatgpt at the end of 2022, establishing a funding bounce, transferred to the billions to a wide range of start-ups. The enthusiasm among investors for AI companies cooled down in 2024, as many high-profile start-ups essentially turned into technical giants such as Google and Amazon. But as companies like Openi and Anthropic, with a chatbot called Claude, continue to improve their AI technologies, the investor interest is back.
(New York Times sued Openai and his partner, Microsoft, accusing them of violation of copyright violations of news material related to the AI system. Openai and Microsoft denied those claims.)
Dario Amodi, Chief Executive Officer of Anthropic and his sister, Daniella Amodi, its chairman, established the company as a start-up, which will build AI with AI. Like many others of the company’s founding team, they left Openai after disagreement with the leadership of Start-up, how its technologies were funded and issued through Microsoft.
In a podcast interview in 2023, Mr. Amodi said that there was 10 to 25 percent chance. AI technology can destroy humanityBut in October, he hit a more optimistic tone, published 14,000-word essay On possible benefits of AI technologies.
He said, “I think most people can be how radical can be about AI, as I think most people can be reduced to underestimate how bad the risks can be.”
The following month, Anthropic raised $ 4 billion from Amazon, its largest investor, which has a total of $ 8 billion dollars in start-ups. Anthropic manufactures and operates its AI system using Amazon and Google -owned computer data centers.
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