Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a deal that would value it at $60 billion, more than triple its valuation from a year ago. The funding round is being led by the venture firm Lightspeed Venture Partners,

AI startup Anthropic is near a deal to raise an additional $2 billion at a price that values the company at $60 billion, sources said, months after its $4 billion funding from Amazon .

The company, which was co-founded by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei, secured a $2bn investment from Alphabet in 2023. "Anthropic nears deal to raise $2bn at $60bn valuation " was originally created and published by Verdict, a GlobalData owned brand.

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

Anthropic, the generative artificial intelligence startup backed by Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) and others, is looking to raise $2B in new funding that would value the company at $60B, The Wall Street Journal reported.

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 through billions in cash.

AI hyperscaler Anthropic in in advanced talks to raise $2 billion led by Lightspeed Venture Partners at a $60 billion post-money valuation, as first reported by the WSJ. Why it matters: This would make Anthropic the world's seventh most valuable startup,

Anthropic is reportedly in advanced talks to raise another $2 billion in funding. The deal would value Anthropic at $60 billion—more than triple its valuation from a year ago. Amazon has invested a total of $8 billion in Anthropic so far.