Lightspeed Venture Partners, a leading Silicon Valley-based investment firm, is of the view that despite the current valuation "euphoria" in artificial intelligence (AI), the technology represents a once-in-a-generation transformation that will rewire all sectors and businesses.

Anthropic announces plans to invest $50 billion in building artificial intelligence infrastructure across the USA, aiming to secure the latest computing power for its AI tools.On Wednesday, the company revealed that it will develop new

Claude maker throws silly money at US data centres Anthropic has decided that the only way to keep its AI toys from coughing is to pour $50 billion into new infrastructure across the US. The Claude peddler said it will set up new data centres in New York and Texas with Fluidstack,

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Anthropic is in talks to raise between $3 billion and $5 billion in a funding round led by Iconiq Capital that would value the artificial intelligence startup at $170 billion, CNBC has confirmed. The OpenAI competitor has been reeling in billions of ...

Anthropic projects generating as much as $70 billion in revenue by 2028, up from close to $5 billion in 2025, according to recent financial forecasts shared with investors and a report by The Information.

(Reuters) -Artificial-intelligence company Anthropic said on Tuesday it is now valued at $183 billion post-money, over twice as much as its earlier valuation, as investor enthusiasm towards AI startups stays strong despite some doubts over tech industry ...

In the first half of 2025, funding to AI startups totaled $116 billion, which was greater than the total investor spend in 2024, according to CB Insights. That number increased by another $45 billion in the third quarter.

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The San Francisco-based group also has a partnership with Amazon, which is the start-up’s “primary” cloud provider and a large investor. It has invested $8bn in Anthropic and is building a 2.2GW data-centre cluster in New Carlisle, Indiana, to help train its AI models.