Key takeaways
- Generative AI firm Anthropic has raised $450m in its Series C funding round, led by Spark Capital and with Google and Zoom as backers
- The company has ChatGPT competitor called Claude, which the funding will be used to continue development on
- Google will be hoping that it’s involvement (and further development of Bard) will help it catch up to the early lead in the ‘AI wars’ taken by Microsoft in their backing of OpenAI
Anthropic AI, creator of the mysterious Claude chatbot and a potential serious competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT, has announced it’s raised $450m in its latest funding round. The news comes as the company’s fortunes grow, with Google Cloud and Zoom partnerships already announced in recent months.
As the company goes from strength to strength, it’s stressed the funding will go towards AI safety as well as developing its Claude model further. A good thing to hear, given AI regulation is moving at a snail’s pace compared to the speed of AI development.
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