According to well-informed sources, OpenAI ‘ s competitor, Anthropic, is in the early stages of planning a new round of investment, which could cost the company over $100 billion. It was revealed that Anthropic had not formally initiated the financing. According to sources, the offer of venture capital companies to provide financing to top artificial intelligence companies has become normal in Silicon Valley, and investors have approached Anthropic to express their willingness to invest in over $100 billion in valuations.
This round of financing, if reached, would mark a significant leap in the valuation of Anthropic. The company raised $3.5 billion in a round of financing led earlier this year by Lightseed Venture Partners, at a time valued at $61.5 billion. The technology media has previously reported on investor efforts to promote new financing for Anthropic.
Discussions about future investments are taking place at a time when the company’s chat robot Claude’s income has surged. On Tuesday, Bloomberg reported that its annualized income had climbed from $3 billion to $4 billion over the past month. Anthropic, based in San Francisco, was founded in 2021 by Daniela Amodei and Dario Amodei sisters. Claude, its al chat robot, is well known as a security- and interpretable enterprise-level AI solution. Its investors include Amazon, Google parent companies Alphabet, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Last December, Anthropic ‘ s annualized income reached $1 billion, about 10 times the same rate. According to a press release, the company ‘ s revenues are mainly from business sales, and its clients now include start-ups such as Cursor, Codeium and Reprit, as well as large companies such as Zoom, Snowflake, Pfizer, Townsend and Ozempic ‘ s companies, Noor and Nord.