Artificial Intelligence Startup Anthropic has taken advantage of $ 3.5 billion in its latest funding round, which has evaluated it to $ 61.5 billion.
Round Was led With the participation of investors, including LightSpeed Venture Partners, Besmer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management and Research Company, General Catelist, Gen Street and Salesforce Ventures.
Established in 2021 by former Openai employees, Anthropic quickly established himself as a prominent player in the AI industry. The company is known for its cloud series of the AI model, with the latest recurrence, Cloud 3.7 Sonnet, has been launched recently.
Newly formed funds to be used to Put forward the next generation AI system, increase computational capabilities, conduct deep research in mechanically interpretation and alignment, and especially accelerate international expansion in Asia and Europe.
Flame
A remarkable aspect of anthropic’s financial trip includes its initial relationship with FTX, now-deformed Cryptocurrency Exchange.
In 2021, FTX invested $ 500 million in anthropic, gaining about 8% stake in the company. However, after the Insolvency of FTX in 2022, the property of the exchange demanded to liquid the property to repay the creditors. In March 2024, FTX Sold about two-thirds Its anthropic share for an union of investors, including Abu Dhabi’s sovereign wealth fund, for $ 884 million.
Subsequently, in June 2024, FTX sold its remaining 15 million shares in anthropic for $ 30 per share, which was a network of over $ 450 million.
These transactions cumually resulted in around $ 1.3 billion, which prefers FTX’s efforts to repay its creditors.
If FTX has not sold and retained its stake, its basic investment is $ 500 million Will be valuable now In $ 5 billion.
