The AI start-up Anthropic recently raised an impressive 3.5 billion dollars in a new financing round. This financial injection increases the company's valuation to a whopping 61.5 billion dollars - that's almost 60 billion euros! This means that Anthropic has even overtaken the Mercedes-Benz Group $MBG (-1,56%). 🚀
Investors include well-known venture capital firms such as Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Bessemer Venture Partners. Investors from Abu Dhabi are also apparently interested. Back in January, Reuters predicted a valuation of 60 billion dollars, which has now actually been reached.
Anthropic, founded by former OpenAI employees, specializes in the development of AI systems and language models and is committed to the responsible use of artificial intelligence. The company competes with OpenAI's popular ChatGPT technology, which is supported by Microsoft.
With the steady growth of the AI industry, things look promising for Anthropic. It will be interesting to see how the competition, including Elon Musk's xAI, will develop.