The artificial intelligence company Anthropic, who is one of OpenAI’s competitors, is conducting advanced negotiations for a new investment tour. According to Bloomberg, the company aims to provide a new financing that can range from $ 3 to $ 5 billion within the scope of this tour. If the negotiations are completed, the total valuation of the company is expected to reach approximately 170 billion dollars. This figure corresponds to almost three times the valuation of $ 61.5 billion announced in March 2024. This development is a current example of the growing investment interest in the field of artificial intelligence.
The US -based Iconiq Capital is the leadership of the investment tour. However, other major investors are expected to participate in the process. According to Bloomberg’s sources, Anthropic is also in contact with the Qatar Investment Authority (QIA) and Singapore with the GICC. Considering the worldwide investments in technology and infrastructure projects, they will be involved in the process. However, the financial details have not yet become official.
Anthropic CEO has doubts about cooperation with government -supported investors.
Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei’s reservations of cooperation with state -supported investors have previously been reflected in the press. In the internal correspondence leaked by Wired, Amodei stated that investing from some regimes supported by the funds supported by some regimes was ethical. Amodei’s statements that “no malicious actor should benefit our success” draws attention to the dilemmas in investment preferences. However, due to the high budgets needed to develop artificial intelligence models, it is understood that the company has to turn to such fund resources.
Anthropic attracted attention with an investment tour of $ 3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners in March 2024. In this round, important investors such as Bessemer Venture Partners, Fidelity, Salesforce Ventures and Cisco Investments were also included. At that time, the valuation was 61.5 billion dollars. However, the recent increase in model training, infrastructure costs and the expenses of opening to the market has made a significant search for new resources.
Anthropic is directly competed with organizations such as OpenAI and Google Deepmind with its large language model series Claude. Together with the Claude 3 series, the models, which have provided performance at the GPT-4 level in text production, summarizing and query response, strengthened Anthropic’s position in the market. The company also has cloud infrastructure agreements with Amazon and Google for model training. Amazon’s commitment to investing $ 4 billion in Anthropic strengthened Anthropic’s strategic position.
However, competition in the artificial intelligence sector is not limited to technical superiority. Which investors are involved in the process attracts the attention of both regulatory institutions and public opinion. In particular, investments from the dominant funds under the control of authoritarian regimes bring up the transparency and ethical responsibilities of companies. This reveals an increasingly complex balance between technological advances and compliance with ethical values.