Anthropic reportedly nears $170B valuation with potential $5B round

Anthropic is approaching a deal to collect between $ 3 billion and $ 5 billion in financing, so that the developer of the large language model is appreciated at $ 170 billion, Bloomberg reported.

Iconiq Capital leads this financing round, but there is a possibility that a second main investor will join the deal. The company also has a conversation with Qatar Investment Authority and GIC, the sovereign asset fund of Singapore, according to the report.

If completed, the deal would almost triple the valuation of Anthropic, who was $ 61.5 billion after a financing round of $ 3.5 billion led by Lightspeed Venture partners announced in March. Other participants in the final round of the startup were Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures and Salesforce Ventures.

Despite the mission of Anthropic as a safety-conscious AI model developer, the CEO of the company, Dario Amodei, recently reported, reported, reported wadedThat he is ‘not happy’ about taking money from sovereign power funds from dictatorial governments.

In order to keep pace with the massive capital requirements for the development of AI models, the company is forced to turn to capital in the middle.

“Unfortunately I think” not a bad person should ever benefit from our success “is a fairly difficult principle to run a company,” Amodei wrote in a leaked memo.

Anthropic did not immediately respond to a request for comments.