The artificial intelligence launched by mankind said on Monday that it had completed a new capital rally agreement that has assumed the company at $ 61.5 billion, from about $ 16 billion just over a year ago.
Led by the Lightspeed Venture Partners Business Capital Company, the new round will draw an additional $ 3.5 billion in the company. Since its establishment in 2021, Anthropic has raised more than $ 14.8 billion from business companies such as Menlo Ventures and technological giants such as Amazon, Google and Salesforce.
The agreement comes amid increasing the funding of the activity for the most important new AI businesses in the industry. Openai is set to complete a $ 40 billion raising agreement, which would estimate the company at $ 300 billion, almost doubled its valuation from just five months ago. Elon Musk’s XAI is in talks about a new round of funding that could estimate it in $ 75 billion, from about $ 40 billion just two months ago, two people with the discussions were reported.
Openai began the AI ​​explosion in late 2022 with the liberation of Chatgpt, launching an increase in funding that moved billions to a wide range of newly established businesses. The excitement between investors for AI companies was cooled in 2024, as several newly established companies were essentially folded into technological giants such as Google and Amazon. But, like companies such as Openai and Anthropic, with Chatbot called Claude, they continued to improve AI technologies, investor interest has returned.
(The New York Times has sued Openai and her partner, Microsoft, accusing them of infringement of copyright of the AI ​​-related news -related content. Openai and Microsoft systems.
Dario Amodei, Managing Director of Anthropic, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, its president, founded the company as a startup that will build AI with protective messages. Like many others in the company’s founding team, they had left Openai after disagreements with the starting leadership of how its technologies were funded and released through Microsoft.
In an interview with Podcast in 2023, Mr Amodei said there was a 10 to 25 % chance that AI technology could destroy humanity. But in October, it hit a more optimistic tone, publishing a 14,000 -word essay on the potential benefits of Ai Technologies.
“I think most people underestimate how radical the AI ​​rise could be, as I think most people underestimate how bad the dangers could be,” he wrote.
Next month, Anthropic raised $ 4 billion from Amazon, its largest investor, who put a total of $ 8 billion in startup. Humanity manufactures and exploits AI systems using Amazon and Google computer centers.
