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The four-year start for the Anthropic artificial intelligence has collected $ 3.5 billion in an agreement that doubles his estimate at more than $ 60 billion, as he aims to keep up with Openi and in front of new rivals, including Chinese Deepseek.
Investment comes a week after Anthropically He has launched his “most intelligent” model to this day, called Claude 3.7 sonnet, and will be spent on calculating resources for the development of new models, as well as international expansion in Asia and Europe.
The Financing Circle, which has been subscribed several times, suggests that investors remain bull’s about the potential of AI start-up movement for great losses to continue their rapid growth, despite the fear of rivals, including, including rivals Deepseek They close a gap with cheaper models and that very sophisticated technology quickly becomes comfortable.
The funding circle led Lightzpeed Venture Partners, a risk capital company of silicon valley, which invested $ 1 billion in anthrop, according to more people with knowledge of the agreement. Other investors include Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street and Salesforce Ventures.
Anthropic are already supporting the large technological groups of Amazon and Google, and both have committed billions of dollars To the start-up, which builds advanced AI models primarily for use by the company.
The company was founded in 2021 by a group of former OPENAI employees. The anthrop has been different from the rivals since then, emphasizing the safety of the model. His set of “Claude” is one of the most capable in the world, rival Openai’s GPT series, Google’s Bemini and Lama Meta in numerous independent estimates and exceeds those in areas that include encoding.
Krishna Rao, Chief Financial Director of Anthropic, said: “This investment encourages our development of more intelligent and more capable AI systems that expand what people can achieve, deepening our understanding of the way these systems.”
The pace of AI investment has become angry in the last two years since the starting of Chatgpt. Openai is in the process collecting $ 40 billion Softbank other investors, while Xai Elon Musk raised more than $ 10 billion last year.
Safe SuperINTELLIGENCE, a company launched last year by OPENAI co-founder Ilya Sutskever, talked about collecting capital with an assessment of a $ 30 billion or more value assessment, according to more people with knowledge of the agreement. He has not yet announced the product.
Anthropic initially sought to raise about $ 2 billion, according to people familiar with conversations, but eventually raised $ 3.5 billion with an estimate of $ 61.5 billion.
“We are extremely excited about consistent exponential growth in AI,” said Ravi Mhatra, partner Lightspeed and co -founder. “[Anthropic] Understand intelligence as a product, recognizing that the success of the company will be a crucial factor for providing current resources and proving the basis for the transformative development of AI. “
