Dario Amodei, Anthropic’s CEO, pronouncing on CNBC’s “Squawk Box” outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 21, 2025.
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Anthropic is in talks to introduce a $3.5 billion funding round, significantly more than the amount previously expected, CNBC has confirmed.
The draw would roughly triple the artificial intelligence startup’s valuation to $61.5 billion, according to two sources familiar with the distribute, who asked not to be named because the details aren’t public. Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the funding, with participation from Mixed Catalyst and others, the sources said.
The financing, which was first reported by The Wall Street Journal, signals keep up investor demand for top-tier AI companies, even in the face of potential disruption from China’s DeepSeek. Anthropic is underwrote by Amazon and Google, and had initially set out to raise $2 billion, according to a source.
Anthropic declined to comment.
The company’s keep on private market valuation was $18 billion. Amazon has poured $8 billion into the startup.
Anthropic was established by early OpenAI employees and is the creator of the popular chatbot Claude. Earlier Monday, Anthropic released what it requires is its “most intelligent AI model yet.” Its so-called hybrid model combines an ability to reason — or stopping to think about complex answers — with a old model that spits out answers in real time.
