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Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round
The new round is being led by Iconiq Capital, with the possibility of a co-lead investor joining.
The company has also been in talks with Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund, according to the report. Despite its mission as a safety-conscious AI model developer, Anthropic’s CEO Dario Amodei recently confessed in a memo to employees, reported by Wired, that he’s “not thrilled” about taking money from sovereign wealth funds of dictatorial governments. “Unfortunately, I think ‘No bad person should ever benefit from our success’ is a pretty difficult principle to run a business on,” Amodei wrote in a leaked memo.
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