Anthropic’s valuation triples to $61.5bn in bumper AI funding round

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The four-year-old artificial intelligence has raised $ 3.5 billion in an anthropological agreement that has made its evaluation more than $ 60 billion, because it is ahead of the opening and ahead of the new rivals, including China’s DEPSEC.

Investment comes after a week Ethnographic Until today, it has introduced its “most intelligent” model, known as Claud 4.7 Sonnet, and will be spent on resources as well as resources for international expansion in Asia and Europe to develop new models.

The round of this fund was subscribed several times, suggests that investors are bullshit about the possibility of AI start-ups to continue their rapid growth, including rivals, including rivals, despite the fear Dipsc The interval with cheap models is off and highly sophisticated technology is becoming faster products.

The fund was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, Silicon Valley Valley Venture Capital Farm, according to multiple people in the knowledge of the agreement, invested $ 1 billion in ethnographic. Other investors include Cisco Investment, D1 Capital Partners, Feeding Management and Research Agency, General Catalist, Jane Street and Salesforce Venture.

Anthropic already supported by Amazon and Google, both are committed Billions of dollars Start-at, which are mainly producing advanced AI models for use by business.

This company was founded by a group of former OpenAI workers in 2021. The anthropologist has since separated himself from rivals by emphasizing the protection of the model. Openai’s GPT series, Google’s Jemi and Mater Lama compete in several distinct evaluations, and the world’s most capable “clod” models are competing in regions, including coding.

Anthropological chief financial officer Krishna Rao said: “These investments give us more intelligent and capable AI systems fuel that expands what people can achieve, when these systems deepens our understanding of how it works.”

Since the launch of the ChatGP of the Openai, the speed of AI investment has become increasingly mad in the last two years. OpenAI process Increase $ 40 billion From softbank and other investors, when Elon Mask’s Jai collected more than $ 10 billion last year.

According to multiple people of the agreement, a company, which was launched last year by the co-founder of the Openai, Elias Sutskver, was in talks to increase capital for $ 30 billion or more. It has not yet announced any product.

According to people familiar with the discussion, anthropic initially wanted to raise about $ 2 billion, but in the end he collected $ 3.5bn in the assessment of $ 61.5bn.

“We are extremely excited to see the continuous significance of AI,” said Robi Mahatre, a lightspeed partner and co-founder. “[Anthropic] Understanding the detective as a product, the success of the enterprise will be an important reason to prove the ongoing resource supply and the converter AI development. “