Anthropic increases $ 3.5B to feed AI’s ambitions

Ai Startup Anthropic on Monday announced It put $ 3.5 billion in one valuation after $ 61.5 billion, led by Lightspeed Venture’s partners.

The E series, which also participated in Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and According to Crunchbase.

“With this investment, humanity will promote the development of next generation AI systems, expand the ability to calculate, deepen its research into mechanistic interpretation and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion,” the company writes in a blog position. “Anthropic focuses on the development of AI systems that can serve as true partners, work with groups to deal with complex projects, concluding information in all areas and helping organizations to achieve oversized impact.”

ANTHROPIC’s money rally rally, shortly after the release of the company’s latest AI model, Claude 3.7 Sonnet, a “hybrid reasoning” model that can consider more carefully before answering. The model is part of Anthropic’s broader effort to simplify the user’s experience around AI products. Most AI Chatbots today have a model discouraging model that forces users to choose from various options that vary in cost and skill. Workshops like Anthropic prefer not to think about it – ideally, a model does all the work.

Anthropic’s business is growing. ReferencedThe annual revenue rate of the company was about $ 1 billion last year. This number has increased by 30% so far in 2025, as the company is launching in cash from the API that serves its models and sells more subscriptions to AI Chatbot, Claude. But the man spends a huge amount that develops AI systems. The company told investors that it expects to burn $ 3 billion this year, According to information.

In an effort to boost profitability, humanity has shifted part of its focus on release new tools and subscriptions, such as “agents using computers”, a desktop customer and mobile applications. The company also opened offices in Europe and made several high profile hires, including co -founder of Instagram Mike Krieger, co -founder of Openai Durk Kingma and former Open Security Security Researcher Jan Leike.

Anthropic has reinforced his relationship with Amazon, and has become an important investor – and a partner with – the start of AI. Amazon dropped an additional $ 4 billion in humanity in November and said it would work with Humanity to optimize AI Chips, Trainium, for a model workload. Amazon also worked with Anthropic to build upgraded Alexa Virtual Assistant Experience, Alexa+. The models of Anthropic apply parts of Alexa+.

The man was co-starred in 2021 by Amodei, who was once vice president of the OpenAi investigation and referenced Separate with the business after disagreements through the course map. Amodei brought with them several former employees to start humanly, including former head of Openai policy, Jack Clark.

The man often tries to position himself as more focused on security than Openai.

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