Anthropic raises $13 billion funding round at $183 billion valuation
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaks of CNBC’s Squawk box on January 21, 2025 outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Anthropic on Tuesday announced A financing round of 13 billion dollars has closed a financing round after 183 billion dollars of money. roughly It is what the artificial intelligence attempt touches from the last increase in March.
The latest financial tour was directed by ICONIQ, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Anthropic, Altimeter, General Catalyst and other investors, including Coatue, said the participation.
“This financing shows the power of cooperation with us to continue to fueled our extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and unprecedented growth of our financial performance.” He said.
Anthropic’s valuation has been in a steep climb since he announced AI assistant Claude in March 2023. Amazon-Backed startup was founded by former Openai research managers, including CEO Dario Amodei.
Openai and Anthropic are severe competitors in the AI market. As CNBC reported in August, Openai entered the mainstream after the release of AI Chatbot Chatgpt in 2022 and is preparing to sell shares to the company as a part of a secondary sale worth approximately $ 500 billion.
As of August, anthropic said that the work rate increased from approximately $ 5 billion to $ 5 billion at the beginning of the year. The company said that anthropic serves more than 300,000 commercial customers.
Antropic said he would use his new capital to deepen security research, to meet increasing institutional demand and to support international expansion.
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