Anthropic is approaching funding from $ 3 to $ 5 billion, valuing a large language model programmer at $ 170 billion, Bloomberg reported.
Iconiq Capital runs this funding round, but it is possible to connect the second essential investor. According to the report, the company also talks to Qatar Investment Authority and Gic, a sovereign Singapore property fund.
After finalizing, the agreement would almost triple the Anthropic valuation, which amounted to $ 61.5 billion after the funding round value $ 3.5 billion run by LightSpeed Venture Partners in March. Other participants of the last round of the startup are Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fideliament Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.
Despite the Anthropica mission as the conscious safety of the AI developer, the company’s general director, Dario Amodei, recently confessed in a note for employees by Wiredthat “he is not excited” by accepting money from sovereign funds of the wealth of dictatorial rule.
To sustain with huge capital requirements developed AI models, the company was forced to show to the Middle East capital.
“Unfortunately, I think that” no bad person should never profit from our success “is a fairly difficult rule of running a company,” he wrote Amodea in a leaking note.
Anthropic didn’t answer immediately at the request for comment.
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