According to the New York Times, people familiar with the matter have revealed that San Francisco artificial intelligence startup Anthropic A new round is underwayFinancingNegotiations are expected to value the company at $60 billion, a sharp climb from about $16 billion less than a year ago.
The funding round, led by venture capital firm Lightspeed Venture Partners, is expected to inject $2 billion into Anthropic, sources said. Since its inception in 2021, theAnthropic has raised more than $11.3 billion in cumulative funding from venture capital firms like Menlo Park Ventures and tech giants like Amazon, Google, and Salesforce.(Note: Currently approximately RMB 82,906 million).
The funding talks come amid a renewed funding boom for some of the most high-profile startups in artificial intelligence. Last month, Elon Musk's xAI raised $6 billion in a deal that valued the company at $35 billion to $45 billion, and in October, OpenAI, the developer of the online chatbot ChatGPT, raised $6.6 billion at a valuation of $157 billion.
In the field of artificial intelligence.Anthropic's big language model, Claude, is coming into its own and is seen as direct competition to OpenAI's ChatGPT.
Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, and President, Daniela Amodei, founded the company as a startup dedicated to building artificial intelligence with "guardrails. Like the rest of the founding team, they left OpenAI after disagreements with the company's leadership over how OpenAI's technology would be funded and distributed through Microsoft.
In a podcast interview in 2023, Amodei had said that there was a 10% to 25% chance that AI technology would destroy humanity. But in October of last year, he took a more optimistic view, penning a 14,000-word article on the potential benefits of AI technology. He wrote: "I think most people underestimate the enormous benefits that AI could bring, just as they underestimate how serious the risks could be."
The following month, Anthropic raised $4 billion from its largest investor, Amazon, which has invested a cumulative $8 billion in the company.Anthropic uses computer data centers owned by Amazon and Google to build and operate its technology.