Anthropic Reportedly Nears $170b Valuation With Potential $5b Round

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Anthropic is nearing a woody to raise betwixt $3 cardinal and $5 cardinal successful funding, valuing nan ample connection exemplary developer astatine $170 billion, Bloomberg reported.

Iconiq Capital is starring this backing round, but there’s a anticipation of a 2nd lead investor joining nan deal. The institution has besides been successful talks pinch Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealthiness fund, according to nan report.

If finalized, nan woody would astir triple Anthropic’s valuation, which was $61.5 billion aft a $3.5 cardinal backing information led by Lightspeed Venture Partners announced successful March. Other participants successful nan startup’s past information included Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures.

Despite its ngo arsenic a safety-conscious AI exemplary developer, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei precocious confessed successful a memo to employees, reported by Wired, that he’s “not thrilled” astir taking money from sovereign wealthiness costs of dictatorial governments.

To support gait pinch nan monolithic superior requirements of processing AI models, nan institution has been forced to move to Middle Eastern capital.

“Unfortunately, I deliberation ‘No bad personification should ever use from our success’ is simply a beautiful difficult rule to tally a business on,” Amodei wrote successful a leaked memo.

Anthropic didn’t instantly respond to a petition for comment.

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