Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of artificial intelligence startup Anthropic.
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CNBC confirmed that Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup founded by a former OpenAI research executive, is in late-stage talks to raise up to $2 billion at a valuation of $60 billion.
The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to a person familiar with the matter who asked not to be named. wall street journal Be the first to report financing news.
Anthropic gets a lot of support Amazonthe creator of the artificial intelligence chatbot Claude. Like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Claude’s popularity has surged as enterprises incorporate generative AI chatbots into sales, marketing, and customer service functions.
Anthropic and OpenAI and the tech giants Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Yuanare engaged in a generative AI arms race to ensure they don’t fall behind in the market Expected to exceed US$1 trillion Income over ten years. Major OpenAI investors Microsoft and Amazon Backing generative AI startups with huge investments and developing its own technology.
Anthropic has annual revenue of about $875 million, mostly from enterprise sales, the person said. Lightspeed, an existing investor in Anthropic, declined to comment on the current funding round.
November, Amazon Announced an additional investment of US$4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to US$8 billion. Anthropic confirmed to CNBC at the time that Amazon remained a minority shareholder and did not have a board seat. Google firm Last year, the company invested $2 billion in Anthropic, previously confirming it had taken a 10% stake in the startup and signed a large cloud contract with the two companies.
Amazon’s latest investment comes in the same month as the company’s cloud division became Anthropic’s “primary cloud and training partner.” Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services’ Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its largest artificial intelligence models.
Anthropic ramped up development efforts last year and in October explain Its artificial intelligence agents are able to use computers to complete complex tasks just like humans. Anthropic’s new computer usage capabilities enable its technology to interpret content on a computer screen, select buttons, enter text, browse websites and perform tasks from any software and real-time web browsing.
Jared Kaplan, Anthropic’s chief scientific officer, told CNBC at the time that the tool could “use computers in basically the same way we do.” He said it could complete the task in “tens or even hundreds of steps.”
Open artificial intelligence Reportedly planned A similar feature will be rolled out soon.
September, artificial Launch of Claude Enterpriseis the biggest new product since the debut of chatbots and is designed for businesses looking to integrate artificial intelligence. Earlier this year, humans debut Its more powerful artificial intelligence model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
