AI Startup behind Anthropic, Chatboot Cloud finally finalized a deal for a new, $ 13 billion series F funding round, which undergoes its evaluation $ 61.5 billion $ 183 billion, it is one of the most valuable startup ever.
Anthropic has more than 300,000 commercial customers and has seen a seven -fold increase in its number of customers with projects above $ 100,000 in the last one year, the company said. In a statement,
“We are seeing an exponential increase in demand on our entire customer base,” anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said.
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The funding round, headed by the investment firm ICONIQ Capital, was one of the biggest financed rounds for AI Startups, with Fidelity Management and LightSpeed Venture Partners, Bloomberg Note.
Anthropic initially planned to raise $ 5 billion, but to a strong demand to reduce the target to $ 10 billion. The end $ 13 billion figure arose from more investors wishing to get a share in the popular startup.
In the statement, Anthropic stated that its run-rate revenue “is one of the fastest growing technology companies in history,” at the beginning of the year increased to $ 1 billion to more than $ 5 billion in August. ,Run-rate revenue The current performance refers to the company’s future annual revenue based on the short period of performance.)
Anthropic CEO and co-founder Dario Amodi. Photo by Chesanot/Getty Image
Anthropic startups such as spacex (valuable) are included $ 350 billion In December) And the original company of Tiktok, Bidens (valuable) $ 300 billion In November), at the High Assessment Club.
While anthropic can raise sufficient funds, its main contestant is further. Chhatgpt’s manufacturer Openai announced in March that it increased $ 40 billion in the largest tech funding round for a private company, increasing its assessment by $ 300 billion.
Anthropic was established four years ago by former OpenAI employees and has since stressed the AI security and distinguished itself from its rivals. It launched its chatbot cloud In March 2023 And Cloud codeAn AI coding tools that enable users to generate, edit and debug codes users in February.
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Creating functional AI is an expensive effort, requiring startups such as anthropic to raise more and more funding as much as possible. In July 2024, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodi called Northern Tangen of Northern Tangen “in”, “in good company“Podcast episodes that are about $ 100 million to train the AI model, but today there are models that” more like a billion. ,
“I think there is a good chance that by (2027) we will be able to get models that are better than most of humans in most things,” Amodi said in podcast.
AI Startup behind Anthropic, Chatboot Cloud finally finalized a deal for a new, $ 13 billion series F funding round, which undergoes its evaluation $ 61.5 billion $ 183 billion, it is one of the most valuable startup ever.
Anthropic has more than 300,000 commercial customers and has seen a seven -fold increase in its number of customers with projects above $ 100,000 in the last one year, the company said. In a statement,
“We are seeing an exponential increase in demand on our entire customer base,” anthropic CFO Krishna Rao said.
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