AI startup Anthroponic is valued at $60 billion

Artificial intelligence startup Anthroposic is close to securing a $2 billion investment in a deal that will triple the four-year-old company’s value to $60 billion.

Claude’s AI chatbot creator is in talks to raise fresh capital from several top Silicon Valley investors, including Lightspeed Venture Partners. The round comes after two months Anthroponic Safe An additional $4bn investment One of its closest partners is the e-commerce giant Amazon.

For N AI Company. In October, Open API raised $6.6 billion, valuing the company at $157 billion, while Elon Musk’s xAI Gained ground on competitors In the year After launching in 2023, it raised $6 billion in December at a $45bn valuation.

The vast sum is almost unprecedented for venture capital-backed startups, which historically have gone public before their valuations hit the tens of billions of dollars. Last year, about half of the $209 billion raised by U.S. venture capitalists went to AI companies, according to data provider PitchBook.

Anthropogenic and rival startups like xAI and OpenAI, as well as established Big Tech companies including Meta and Google, are in a fierce race to develop the best AI models, which require billions of dollars to train and run. Investors are not expecting startups in the sector to become profitable anytime soon. Ultimately, however, they believe the technology could create trillions of dollars in value.

Anthropofic, a San Francisco-based company founded in 2021 by former OpenAI employees, focuses on security. It has been competing with major AI startups over the past year, and has poached several employees from OpenAI in recent months. It also released certain features such as its AI’s ability to control computers.

Leading AI companies, including Anthropoc, have turned to models that show signs of “reasoning,” or to consider tasks rather than simply regurgitating data. They are also racing to create AI agents that can complete tasks for users.

Executives in the sector predict that 2025 will see even more significant breakthroughs in AI technology, including the achievement of artificial general intelligence — simply matching or surpassing human intelligence in a wide range of disciplines.

“We’re confident that we know how to build AGI as we understand it now,” said Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI. He wrote on the blog Published this week. “We believe that by 2025, the first AI agents will ‘join the workforce’ and materially change the way companies produce,” he said.

Details of Anthropic’s fundraising were first reported by The Wall Street Journal. Anthroponic declined to comment. Lightspeed Venture Partners did not immediately respond to a request for comment.