AI Startup Anthropic Plans to Raise $2 Billion at a $60 Billion Valuation

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  Anthropic in Talks for $2 Billion Funding Round

  The financing efforts follow new funding rounds by Elon Musk’s xAI and the market leader, OpenAI, which is now valued at $157 billion.
  
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• AI Startup Anthropic Raising Funds Valuing It at $60 Billion

  The Amazon-backed OpenAI rival was valued at $18 billion last year.
  
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  Anthropic may be joining rival OpenAI with its own eye-popping valuation, but the hefty valuations for the two biggest AI startups obscure the fact that, for now, these companies are burning ...
  
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• Anthropic in talks to raise funding at $60 billion valuation

  AI startup Anthropic is in late-stage talks to raise as much as $2 billion at a $60 billion valuation, according to a person familiar with the deal.
  
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  AI start-up Anthropic closes in on $60bn valuation

  Maker of the Claude AI chatbot nears fresh $2bn investment in the latest sign of how much money is pouring into the sector
  
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