SAN FRANCISCO, March 3 (Xinhua) -- AI startup Anthropic announced on Monday it has raised 3.5 billion U.S. dollars led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a 61.5 billion dollar valuation.
The Series E, which also had participation from Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, brings the company's total raised to 18.2 billion dollars, according to Crunchbase.
"With this investment, Anthropic will advance its development of next-generation AI systems, expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion," the U.S. San Francisco-based company wrote in a blog post.
"Anthropic is focused on developing AI systems that can serve as true collaborators, working alongside teams to tackle complex projects, synthesize information across fields, and help organizations achieve outsized impact," it added.
Anthropic was co-launched in 2021 by CEO Dario Amodei, who was once VP of research at OpenAI, along with a number of ex-OpenAI employees. ■
