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, a rival with its AI assistant Claude, is finalizing a fresh $3.5 billion funding round that would value it at $61.5 billion, .

Investors in the new megaround would include , , and Abu Dhabi-based investment firm .

Anthropic was last valued at $18.5 billion in February 2024.

The round would value Anthropic at more than ’s , which was valued at $50 million in November after its $6 billion Series C (which Lightspeed and MGX also participated in).

However, the new round values Anthropic well behind , which is closing in on its own new $40 billion funding from that will value it at a mind-blowing $260 billion.

More money

The finalizing of the new round comes just about a month after Anthropic raised a fresh $1 billion from previous investor , which had  invested $2 billion in October 2023.

The new funding — which was first last month — also comes just a couple of weeks after it was the startup was in advanced talks to raise $2 billion in a deal led by that would value it at $60 billion.

That Google deal came just two months after agreed to invest another $4 billion in the AI startup. That deal followed Amazon’s 2023 announcement to invest up to $4 billion in Anthropic — a deal that gave the Seattle-based e-commerce and cloud titan a minority stake in the startup.

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