Anthropic raises $3.5B to fuel its AI ambitions

Anthropic on Monday AI declared $ 61.5 billion worth of money led by Lightspeed Virususturi $ 3.5 billion.

In addition, Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalist, Jane Avenue, Menlo Enterprises and Salezforce Enterprises E Enterprises E Enterprise e series e According to Crunchbase.

“This investment will develop an anthropic, subsequent generation of AI systems, expand its calculation ability, accelerate and accelerate its research in the field of counterparts and accelerate international expansion.” “Solving anthropic, complex projects, synthesize information between fields, focus on developing AI systems that can serve as AI employees, which help them to synthesize information in areas.

Anthropic Mammoth Round Comment Round, the company comes shortly after the launch of the latest flagship AI model, Claude 3.7 SonnetA “hybrid justification” model that can be more carefully considered before answering. The model is part of the anthropy’s extensive effort to facilitate the user experience around AI products. AI chatBots, the majority of today has a challenging model selector that forces users to choose one of several different choices varies with the price and ability. Laboratories like anthropic do not need to think about it more – Ideally, a model does all the work.

Anthropik’s work is growing. It was reported to have somethingThe company’s annual income period was about $ 1 billion last year. This number has so far increased by 30% to today, in 2025, in 2025, the API serves the cash and models of models, more subscribers to AI Chatbot. However, it spends a large amount of advanced anthropical AI systems. The company said investors will burn $ 3 billion this year, For information.

Changed some attention to anthropic, some attention and subscription stations in proposal to gain interest Using a computer “Agents” one Desktop Customerand Mobile apps. The company is also Opening offices They prepared several high-level rent, including Europe and Instagram co-founder Mike KriegerOpenai co-founder Dip kingmaand Ex-Openai security researcher Fuel.

The anthropic strengthened his attitude with Amazon, as well as a large investor at the AI ​​start. Amazon poured In November, an additional $ 4 billion in Antropian, this model preparations will work with an anus to optimize special AI plugs for workloads and anthropic. Amazon also merged with anthropic to build it The updated Alexa virtual assistant experienceAlexa +. Anthropic models Power parts Alexa +.

Anthropic was launched in 2021 by CEO Dario Amodani, who once researched in Openai It was reported to have something Divide by firm after disagreements over the road map. Amodii, a number of ex-Openai employees, open policy facilities, brought to an an anthropic start including Jack Clark.

Anthropic often tries to direct himself to the level of security than Openai.

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