Artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic is seeking to raise $3.5 billion (5 trillion won) in investments, according to a report by U.S. media outlet CNBC on the 24th (local time).
According to sources, if this investment is successful, Anthropic's corporations value is expected to be assessed at $61.5 billion (88 trillion won). This is more than three times the $18.4 billion valuation during last year's fundraising.
Earlier, Bloomberg reported that Anthropic was in the process of raising $2 billion (2.6 trillion won), and the amount being discussed this time greatly exceeds that. OpenAI was valued at $157 billion last September.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei, who were founding members of OpenAI, and has developed the generative AI model "Claude." This model is one of the widely used AIs alongside ChatGPT around the world.
In particular, Amazon has invested $8 billion so far, and Google also supported $2 billion last year, attracting the attention of major technology corporations.
On this day, Anthropic unveiled its latest AI model "Claude 3.7 Sonnet." The company described this model as a "hybrid model" that combines traditional real-time response generation methods with deep reasoning capabilities for complex questions.
Additionally, it was revealed that the design reflects how corporations are actually utilizing large language models (LLMs), focusing more on practical job performance rather than solving mathematical or computer science problems.
Alongside this, Anthropic previewed its AI-based coding tool "Claude Code," which supports developers' coding tasks.