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Anthropic reportedly in talks to raise $2B at $60B valuation, led by Lightspeed


OpenAI rival Anthropic is reportedly in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners.

OpenAI rival Anthropic is in talks to raise $2 billion in new capital in a funding round led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, according to The Wall Street Journal. AI companies have been forced to raise enormous sums of money to fund the development and scaling of their technologies, which tend to be incredibly compute-intensive. Anthropic’s new round, should it close successfully, would add to the $4 billion the company raised from Amazon in November 2024.

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