Dario Amodei, the CEO of Anthropic, who on January 21, 2025 on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” spoke outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on January 21, 2025.
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Anthropic is in conversation to collect a financing round of $ 3.5 billion, considerably more than the previously expected amount, CNBC has confirmed.
The round would roughly the appreciation of the artificial intelligence startup triple up to $ 61.5 billion, according to two sources that are familiar with the deal, which asked for not to be mentioned because the details are not public. Lightspeed Venture Partners leads the financing, with the participation of General Catalyst and others, according to the sources.
The financing, which was first reported Through the Wall Street Journal, signals continuous investor demand to top-tier AI companies, even in the light of possible disturbance of the Deepseek of China. Anthropic is supported by Amazon And GoogleAnd was initially on the way to pick up $ 2 billion, according to a source.
Anthropic refused to comment.
The last value of the company was $ 18 billion. Amazon has cast $ 8 billion in the startup.
Anthropic was founded by Early OpenAi employees and is the maker of the popular Chatbot Claude. Earlier Monday, Anthropic released what it says is the “most intelligent AI model so far”. The so-called hybrid model combines the ability to stop reasoning or stop to think about complex answers with a traditional model that spits out answers in real time.
