Dario Amodei, co-founder and CEO of AI startup Anthropic.
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Anthropic, an AI startup founded by former OpenAI executives, is in late-stage talks to raise up to $2 billion at a $60 billion valuation, CNBC has confirmed.
Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the funding round, according to a person familiar with the matter who requested anonymity because the details are confidential. The Wall Street Journal He was the first to report the funding news.
Anthropic, which has been strongly supported by Amazonis the creator of the chatbot Claude. Like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, Claude's popularity has boomed as companies integrate AI-generated chatbots across sales, marketing, and customer service functions.
Anthropy and OpenAI, along with other tech giants Googleamazon, Microsoft and deadis in an AI arms race to ensure they don't fall behind in the market It is expected to reach $1 trillion in revenue over a decade. Microsoft, the lead investor in OpenAI, and Amazon Supporting startups in the field of artificial intelligence with huge investments As well as developing their own technologies.
Anthropic's annual revenue is about $875 million and comes mainly from enterprise sales, the person said. Lightspeed, an existing investor in Anthropic, declined to comment on the current round.
In november, Amazon It announced that it will invest an additional $4 billion in Anthropic, bringing its total investment to $8 billion. Amazon remains a minority investor, Anthropic confirmed to CNBC at the time, and does not have a seat on the board. Google committed to invest $2 billion in Anthropic last year, after previously confirming it had acquired a 10% stake in the startup along with a major cloud contract between the two companies.
In the same month as Amazon's latest investment, the company's cloud division became Anthropic's “primary training and cloud partner.” Anthropic will use Amazon Web Services' Trainium and Inferentia chips to train and deploy its largest AI models moving forward.
Anthropology promoted development throughout the past year and into October He said AI agents were able to use a computer, like a human, to complete complex tasks. Anthropic's new computer capability allows its technology to interpret what is on a computer screen, select buttons, enter text, navigate through websites, perform tasks through any program and surf the Internet in real time.
The tool could “use computers in the same way we do,” Jared Kaplan, Anthropic's chief science officer, told CNBC in an interview at the time. He said he could do tasks in “dozens or even hundreds of steps.”
OpenAI It is said that plans To introduce a similar feature soon.
In September Anthropy posed by Cloud Enterpriseits biggest new product since its chatbot debuted, is designed for companies looking to integrate their own AI. Earlier in the year, Anthropy For the first time The most powerful AI model, Claude 3.5 Sonnet.
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