Jaden Schaefer
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Okay, let's talk about what's going on with Anthropic.
So I think right now we're seeing really strong investor demand.
They're raising $20 billion at a $350 billion valuation.
And this is all according to reports coming out of Bloomberg.
So investors really want to get in on this, obviously.
I mean, Anthropic's a massive company doing some really impressive things.
But they have apparently pushed this round to double what its original target was.
They weren't trying to go after $20 billion, but they've been able to push it to that.
And this raise is coming just five months after Anthropic closed a $13 billion equity round, which I think, I mean, this is right on the heels of that.
I think this is showing just how much competition there is among a lot of these kind of top of the line AI models and these AI labs.
I mean, basically, they just need endless compute.
basically raise endless capital as quickly as possible.
So the people that are expected to participate in this round is Altimeter Capital Partners, Sequoia Capital, Lightspeed Venture Partners, Menlo Ventures, Coat Management, Iconic Capital, and then apparently Singapore's Sovereign Wealth Fund is also getting in on this.
I think a lot of the funding, however, is actually going to be coming from Anthropix strategic partners, Nvidia and Microsoft.
So it's kind of interesting because
I think, you know, in a lot of cases, you see companies, typically a lot of these startups, raising money from these big VCs.