The Anthropic artificial intelligence startup announced on Tuesday that it has completed a $ 13 billion financing round, reaching a post-investment assessment of $ 183 billion, a value about three times higher than the one registered in the last March, according to the CNBC. The company's evaluation has registered a steep ascent since its assistant AI, Claude, in March 2023. In August, Anthropic announced that its annualized recurrent revenues (Run-Rate Revenue) exceeded $ 5 billion, increasing from about $ 1 billion at the beginning of the year. The latest financing round has been led by iconiq, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors who participated include Altimeter, General Catalyst and Coatue, the company said. «This financing demonstrates the extraordinary confidence of investors in our financial performance and the solidity of our collaboration to continue to supply our unprecedented growth,» said Krishna Rao, the financial director of Anthropic. The startup, supported by Amazon, was founded by former research directors from Openai, including the current CEO, Dario Amodei. Openai and Anthropic are direct competitors on the AI market. Openai, which became a global phenomenon after launching the Chatgpt chatbot in 2022, is preparing to sell actions in a secondary transaction that would evaluate the company at about $ 500 billion. Anthropic, which serves over 300,000 business customers, said that it will use the money to deepen AI safety research, to respond to growing demand from corporate customers and to support international expansion.
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