April 29 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is weighing raising funds in a new round that would \u200cvalue the Claude maker at more than $900 billion, \u200cBloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The \u200bcompany is entertaining offers at more than double its current valuation, though the considerations are at an early stage and no offers have been accepted yet, the report said.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Anthropic, \u200cwhich raised $30 billion at a \u2060valuation of $380 billion in February, declined to comment when contacted by Reuters.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The company has received \u2060multiple preemptive offers to raise fresh capital of around $50 billion at a valuation in the range of $850 billion to $900 billion, \u200bTechCrunch reported \u200bon Wednesday, citing sources \u200bfamiliar with the matter.<\/p>\n
\u2022 Anthropic \u200cis expected to make a decision on the round and its valuation at a board meeting in May, TechCrunch said.<\/p>\n
\u2022 If Anthropic closes a round at the reported valuation, it could dethrone OpenAI, valued at $852 billion in March, \u200cas the world\u2019s most valuable AI \u200bstartup.<\/p>\n
\u2022 The fundraising push comes ahead \u200bof a potential \u200bIPO, which may be launched as soon as \u200cOctober, the Bloomberg report said.<\/p>\n
\u2022 \u200bAnthropic was resisting \u200binvestment proposals at valuations of $800 billion or more, earlier reports had said, as major backers Alphabet’s Google \u200band Amazon continued \u200cto announce multi-billion-dollar performance-based investments.<\/p>\n
(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in \u200bBengaluru; additional reporting by Fabiola Ar\u00e1mburo; Editing by \u200bJonathan Ananda and Subhranshu Sahu)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 29 (Reuters) – Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is weighing raising funds in a new round that would…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[53,25,9179,15554,10948],"class_list":{"0":"post-22459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-anthropic","8":"tag-anthropic","9":"tag-artificial-intelligence","10":"tag-bloomberg-news","11":"tag-bloomberg-report","12":"tag-valuation"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}