Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei speaks at the CNBC Squawk Box outside the World Economic Forum on January 21, 2025 in Davos, Switzerland.
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Google The company has agreed to make more than $1 billion in new investment in generative artificial intelligence startup Anthropic, a person familiar with the matter confirmed to CNBC.
New funding builds on Google’s legacy US$2 billion invested in the past Anthropic shares and 10% ownership of the startup, as well as a large cloud contract between the two companies. Anthropic is best known for its Claude AI chatbot.
The agreement comes as Anthropic, one of the major players in Silicon Valley’s artificial intelligence arms race, is in late-stage talks to raise $2 billion in financing Valuation: $60 billion The project is led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, CNBC reported earlier this month.
According to sources, Anthropic’s annualized revenue reached US$1 billion in December last year, an increase of about 10 times compared with the same period last year. The company’s revenue comes primarily from enterprise sales.
financial times Google’s investment was first reported.
Anthropic gets a lot of support Amazonfounded by former OpenAI research senior executives. It launched Claude in March 2023, and like OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Google’s Gemini, Claude’s popularity has exploded as enterprises incorporate generative AI chatbots into sales, marketing, and customer service functions.
Generative artificial intelligence market, including Anthropic and OpenAI as well as Google, Amazon, Microsoft and Yuanyes Expected to exceed US$1 trillion Income over ten years. Amazon and Microsoft (major investors in OpenAI) Backing generative AI startups with huge investments and developing its own technology.
Amazon In November it was announced that it would invest an additional US$4 billion in Anthropic. This brings Amazon’s total investment in the new startup to $8 billion. Anthropic confirmed to CNBC at the time that Amazon remained a minority shareholder and did not have a board seat.
As part of the investment, Amazon Web Services becomes Anthropic’s “primary cloud and training partner.” Since then, Anthropic has used Amazon Web Services’ Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its largest artificial intelligence models.
Anthropic ramped up its technology development efforts throughout last year, and in October, the startup explain Its artificial intelligence agents are able to use computers to complete complex tasks just like humans. The startup says Anthropic’s computer usage capabilities allow 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.
Anthropic selection debut Claude 3.5 Sonnet, its more powerful AI model, June, and startups Launch of Claude EnterpriseIt is the biggest new product since the chatbot was launched in September.
