San Francisco-based Anthropic is said to be raising $300M in funding that would value the AI startup at around $5B, sources told The New York Times.
Anthropic, founded by two former OpenAI researchers, recently introduced an AI conversational chatbot, Claude, that's similar to ChatGPT.
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- Dario Amodei, OpenAI's former VP of research, founded Anthropic with his sister Daniela Amodei, formerly OpenAI's VP of safety and policy. Both worked on the AI research lab's GPT-3 language model.
- Founded in 2021, Anthropic has raised over $700M to date. This includes a $580M Series B announced last April, which included investors former FTX CEO Sam Bankman-Fried and former Alameda Research co-CEO Caroline Ellison.
- According to The Times, some of that funding from Bankman-Fried and his FTX colleagues could be recovered as part of the collapsed crypto platform's bankruptcy proceedings.
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- Anthropic has been offering Claude in a closed beta that's available via a Slack integration.
- Recently, a George Mason University professor said the AI conversational chatbot successfully passed a law and economics exam.
- In addition to Anthropic, other generative AI startups that are working on funding deals include chatbot companies Character.AI and Replika.
- Character, founded by Google researchers, is seeking to raise up to $250M.
