Anthropic is reportedly raising $2B, led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, potentially boosting its valuation to $60B—a 233% rise since 2023.
Anthropic, an AI firm, is purportedly in discussions to raise $2 billion, which would result in a valuation of approximately $60 billion.
As reported by the Wall Street Journal on January 7, Lightspeed Venture Partners is overseeing a funding round for the OpenAI rival.
In December 2023, the firm was assigned a valuation of $18 billion, indicating that the AI company’s valuation could have increased by over 233% within a year.
In 2023 and 2024, Anthropic received multibillion-dollar investments from two Big Four technology companies:
Amazon and Google. At the time of publication, Cointelegraph did not receive a response from Anthropic regarding the agreement’s specifics.
In 2021, Anthropic was established by former members of OpenAI. In 2023, the company publicly released its version of Claude, an AI-powered large language model (LLM).
OpenAI’s ChatGPT, which was introduced in 2022, is a competitor to the LLM.
Are Machines On Their Way To Us?
In recent years, there has been a significant increase in the focus on artificial intelligence software, as there has been speculation that the industry could render certain occupations obsolete.
One of the objectives of AI firms is to create systems that exhibit artificial general intelligence (AGI).
As early as 2026, AI could surpass human capabilities, according to Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, as a result of the technology’s advancement.
Similar predictions were made by OpenAI CEO Sam Altman in one of his initial messages for 2025. He suggested that AI agents could “materially alter the output of companies” and “join the workforce” within the next year.
