AI safety and research company Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. The funding round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and participants included Bessemer Venture Partners, Cisco Investments, D1 Capital Partners, Fidelity Management & Research Company, General Catalyst, Jane Street, Menlo Ventures, and Salesforce Ventures, among other new and existing investors.
With this funding round, Anthropic will advance the development of its AI systems, expand compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion.
This announcement follows the company’s launch of Claude 3.7 Sonnet and Claude Code, building on Anthropic’s continued product and commercial momentum. And Claude 3.7 Sonnet has set a new high-water mark in coding abilities, which is an area where Anthropic plans to make further progress in the coming months.
With this foundation, Anthropic is focused on developing AI systems that can serve as true collaborators, working along with teams to tackle complex projects, synthesize information across fields, and help organizations achieve an outsized impact.
Businesses across various industries — from fast-growing startups such as Cursor and Codeium to global corporations like Zoom, Snowflake and Pfizer — are turning to Claude to transform their operations.
– Replit integrated Claude into “Agent” to turn natural language into code, driving 10 times revenue growth
– Thomson Reuters’ tax platform CoCounsel utilizes Claude to assist tax professionals
– Novo Nordisk used Claude for reducing clinical study report writing from 12 weeks to just 10 minutes
– And Claude now helps to power Alexa+, bringing advanced AI capabilities to millions of households and Prime members.
