Anthropic reportedly upped its latest raise to $20B

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Anthropic has doubled the magnitude of VC backing it aims to raise, the FT reports, expanding the people from $10 cardinal to $20 billion. The round, expected to adjacent soon, volition springiness the institution a valuation of $350 billion, sources told the FT.  

Anthropic, which makes the fashionable AI Claude and the arsenic fashionable Claude Code, decided to treble its backing people owed to booming capitalist interest. Backers successful this circular are expected to see Sequoia Capital (which besides invests successful its rival OpenAI), Singapore’s sovereign wealthiness fund, and concern absorption steadfast Coatue, per the FT. 

Late past year, it was reported that Anthropic hired lawyers as a measurement toward prepping for an IPO that could travel sometime this year. The institution announced a $13 cardinal rise successful September, making it 1 of the industry’s astir invaluable backstage companies, valued astatine $183 billion. 

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