Claude developer Anthropic receives over 3 billion US dollars in funding

The US start-up Anthropic is benefiting from the boom in artificial intelligence (AI) triggered by the publication of the Chinese model DeepSeek. The current financing round is going much better than expected. Anthropic has created the Claude AI model.

Anthropic is expected to raise USD 3.5 billion in the current financing round, reports the US newspaper Wall Street Journal. This would correspond to a company valuation of 61.5 billion US dollars. Before the start of the financing round, the figure was 18 billion US dollars.

Financing target clearly exceeded

Anthropic's target for the round was 2 billion US dollars. In talks with investors, the company managed to increase this sum, insiders told the newspaper. The investors include the US financial companies Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Bessemer Venture Partners. The investment company MGX from Abu Dhabi is also said to be interested in joining Anthropic.

The Chinese company High-Flyer released the AI model DeepSeek-R1 at the end of last year and generated a lot of hype in Silicon Valley because it is free and open source, but also because of its performance.

Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives and has developed the Claude AI model, which is considered one of the major competitors to OpenAI's ChatGPT. The current version is Claude 3.7 Sonnet. The company has already attracted investors in the past. These include the internet company Amazon, which has invested around 8 billion US dollars in the company to date. Other investors include Alphabet, Microsoft, Apple and Nvidia.

(wpl)