Anthropic

History

2023

Raising $2 billion in investment from Google

At the end of October 2023, information appeared that Google will invest $2 billion in the startup Anthropic in the field of artificial intelligence. This young firm specializes in developing large language models (LLMs), making it a competitor to OpenAI.

Founded in 2021, Anthropic is the developer of the Claude 2 chatbot, which is an alternative to OpenAI's ChatGPT. At the same time, Claude 2 is capable of receiving a large amount of input data - up to 75 thousand words at the same time against 3000 words in ChatGPT. Thanks to this, the Anthropic chatbot can generate much more detailed descriptions or stories. A study by Arthur AI, a machine learning monitoring platform, found that Claude 2 is the most reliable chatbot in terms of "self-awareness," meaning it assesses exactly what it does and only answers questions for which it has enough training data.

Google invests $2 billion in Anthropic

In early 2023, it became known that Google invested $300 million in Anthropic, receiving a 10 percent stake in the startup. In accordance with the new agreement, Google will provide Anthropic with $500 million, and in the future will invest another $1.5 billion in this company. These funds will help the startup accelerate the creation of the next generation LLMs, which will take the capabilities of generative AI to the next level.

It is also noted that in May 2023, Anthropic held a funding round in the amount of $450 million. And in September of this year, Amazon announced that it would invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic and receive a minority stake in the company. At the same time, AWS (Amazon Web Services) will become the main cloud provider for Anthropic for critical workloads, including security research and the development of future base models. Anthropic plans to perform the bulk of its computing tasks on the AWS platform.^[1]

Raising $1.5 million in investment from Raison

In mid-June 2023, it became known that a venture capital fund founded by a Russian Raison invested $1.5 million in a competitor OpenAI and - Google DeepMind American startup Anthropic, which is developing a digital assistant with. artificial intelligence The amount of funding amounted to $1.5 million, investments were made as part of round C.

American startup Anthropic is the developer of generative AI. The main solution of the startup is Claude, an AI assistant with similar functionality to ChatGPT. Anthropic was founded in the United States in 2021 by former OpenAI employees responsible for the development of models of the large open source AI language model GPT-2 and GPT-3.

Founder of the international investment holding Raison Alexander Zaytsev

The Claude AI assistant from Anthropic has similar functions to ChatGPT, but can process three times more data. The bot is available through a plugin in the Slack application, the Poe service, or as a paid access to the Claude API. For June 2023, Anthropic received investments from Salesforce Ventures, Google, as well as Spark Capital. According to the results of the last round of financing of series C, the startup Anthropic was valued at $4.5 billion.

Raison Managing Partner Andrei Berezin announced that ChatGPT is used by more than 100 million people as of June 2023. AI is projected by Goldman Sachs, the world's largest investment bank, to boost global GDP by 7% through 2033. Andrei Berezin called the American startup Anthropic one of the world's leading developers of generative AI.

The international investment holding Raison was founded by Russian Andrei Berezin and Ukrainian Alexander Zaytsev. The company has offices in cities, Almaty Tallinn as well as in, and San Francisco under the management of Raison - $250 million assets. The holding company Raison Asset Management has invested in many different technology companies such as Klarna, Rubik and Scale AI. The venture capital portfolio has about 40 private startups, including a space company SpaceX founded. Elon Musk^[2]

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