AI Start-Up Anthrope closes the agreement that values ​​it at $ 61.5 billion

The new artificial intelligence company Anthrope said on Monday that he had completed a new fund collection agreement that valued the company at $ 61.5 billion, compared to approximately $ 16 billion a little more than a year.

Directed by the Lightspeed Venture Partners risk capital firm, the new round will pump $ 3.5 billion additional to the company. Since its foundation in 2021, Anthrope has raised more than $ 14.8 billion of risk companies such as Menlo Ventures and Technological Giants such as amazon, Google and Salesforce.

The agreement is produced in the midst of an increase in financing activity for the new companies of the most prominent industry. Operai is scheduled to complete a fund collection agreement of $ 40 billion that would value the company at $ 300 billion, almost double its valuation of only five months ago. XAI of Elon Musk is in conversations for a new financing round that could value it up to $ 75 billion, compared to approximately $ 40 billion only two months ago, two people said with knowledge of the discussions.

Operai began the ai ​​boom at the end of 2022 with the launch of Chatgpt, triggering an increase in financing that led billions to a wide range of new companies. The enthusiasm among the investors of the ai ​​companies cooled in 2024, since several new high -profile companies folded essentially in technological giants such as Google and amazon. But as companies like OpenAi and Anthrope, with their chatbot called Claude, they have continued to improve their ai technologies, the interest of investors has returned.

(The New York Times has sued Openai and Microsoft, accusing them of the infraction of the copyright of the news content related to the ai ​​systems. OpenAi and Microsoft have denied those statements).

Dario Amodei, executive director of Anthrope, and his sister, Daniela Amodei, her president, founded the company as a new company that would build ai with railings. Like several others in the company's founding team, Openai had left after disagreements with the leadership of the new company on how its technologies were being financed and released through Microsoft.

In a podcast interview in 2023, Mr. Amodei said there was a probability of 10 to 25 percent of IA technology could destroy humanity. But in October, he gave a more optimistic tone, publishing a 14,000 words essay On the potential benefits of ai technologies.

“I think most people are underestimating how radical the ai ​​could be, as I think most people are underestimating how bad the risks could be,” he wrote.

The following month, Anthrope raised $ 4 billion of amazon, its largest investor, which has put a total of $ 8 billion in the new company. Anthrope builds and operates its ai systems using computer data centers owned by amazon and Google.