Artificial Intelligence: Anthropic finalises $65bn funding deal to surpass OpenAI's valuation
New round values Claude AI maker at $965bn including the latest money Anthropic has raised $65bn in a funding round that will nearly treble the start-up's valuation and see it leapfrog arch-rival OpenAI as the most valuable AI lab.
The Claude chatbot maker was valued at $900bn, not including the new investment, as part of the fundraising led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital.
The round comes just three months after Anthropic raised $30bn in a deal valuing it at $350bn as the popularity of its tools for software developers and workplace customers has propelled extraordinary growth and given it an edge over OpenAI, which was most recently valued at $852bn.