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Anthropic ended the last round of financing on the valuation after harvesting with a value of $ 61.5 billion, the company confirmed CNBC.
A round with a value of $ 3.5 billion was led by LightSpeed Venture Partners, and other investors included, among others, Salesforce Ventures, Cisco Investments, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, D1 Capital Partners and Jane Street.
Anthropic, Start -up artificial intelligence supported by AmazonIt was founded by former directors of Research Openai. He launched Claude in March 2023 and, like Chatgpt Openai and Google's Gemini, Claude exploded, because the companies contain generative AI chatbots in terms of sales, marketing and customer service functions.
Startup plans to use the latest funds to develop the development of new generation artificial intelligence, especially to “expand its computing ability, deepen research in the field of mechanistic interpretation and equalization, and accelerate international expansion in Asia and Europe”, as released.
In December, revenues from Anthropic achieved an annual $ 1 billion, which was an increase of about 10 times a year, the source informed CNBC. The company's revenues come primarily from the sale of enterprises, and its customers currently include startups such as Cursor, Codeum and replit, as well as larger companies such as Zoom, Snowflake, Pfizer, Thomson Reuters and Novo Nordisk, a company standing behind Ozmpiic, as released.
Anthropic also displayed attention about the funding round that her technology now drives Alexa+Amazon, “bringing Claude to millions of households and Prime members.”
Krishna Rao, financial director of Anthropica, said in a statement that the latest investment “drives our development of more intelligent and talented AI systems that expand what people can achieve” and that “constant progress in scaling in all aspects of model training supply a breakthrough in intelligence and knowledge.”
News about the latest funding round after Google In January he agreed to a new investment Over $ 1 billion In Anthropic, a source that knows the situation confirmed at that time CNBC. Fresh funds built on Google Earlier investments in the amount of $ 2 billion in the anthropic and 10% shares in the startup, as well as a large cloud agreement between both companies. Anthropic is best known of Claude AI Chatbot.
AI generative market, including anthropic and openai, as well as Google, Amazon, Microsoft AND FinishIs It is expected to reach $ 1 trillion in revenues within a decade. Amazon and Microsoft, which is the main investor of OPENAI, are Generative support -AI with high investments In addition to the development of your own technologies.
Amazon He announced that in November he would invest an additional 4 billion dollars in Anthropic. This brought the total investment of Amazon in a startup up to $ 8 billion. Amazon remains a minority investor, Antropic confirmed CNBC and has no place on board.
As part of the November Amazon Web Services investment, they became a “training and training partner”. Anthropic used Amazon Web Services chips to train and implement its largest AI models from that time.
Anthropic increased the development of technology throughout the year, and in October Startup he said That his agents AI were able to use computers such as people to perform complex tasks. Startup said that the ability to use the Antropic computer allows your technology to interpret what is on the computer screen, introduce text, introduce text, navigation of websites and perform tasks via any software and browsing the Internet in real time.