Anthropic, the generative artificial intelligence company backed by Amazon (NASDAQ:AMZN) and others, said on Tuesday that it had raised $13B in a new Series F funding round.
The new funding round, which is bigger than previous reporting indicated it might be, now values the maker of the Claude AI chatbot at $183B.
The funding round was led by investment firm ICONIQ and was co-led by Fidelity and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors in the round include funds associated with BlackRock (BLK), Blackstone (BX), Coatue, General Atlantic, T. Rowe Price and others.
“From Fortune 500 companies to AI-native startups, our customers rely on Anthropic’s frontier models and platform products for their most important, mission-critical work,” said Anthropic CFO Krishna Rao in a statement. “We are seeing exponential growth in demand across our entire customer base. This financing demonstrates investors’ extraordinary confidence in our financial performance and the strength of their collaboration with us to continue fueling our unprecedented growth.”
Amazon, which was founded in 2021 by former employees of OpenAI, has also received funding from Google (GOOG) (GOOGL) and Salesforce (CRM).
The company, which launched its Claude chatbot in March 2023, said its revenue run-rate had reached more than $5B as of August. Anthropic also said that it has more than 300,000 business customers and the number of customers that spend more than $100,000 with it had grown “nearly” seven times in the past year.
The new funding is expected to boost Anthropic’s competition with OpenAI and Elon Musk’s xAI, each of which has raised billions in capital this year to fund their investments in data centers and talent for developing AI models.
Earlier this year, Anthropic was valued at about $61.5B in a $3.5B round led by Lightspeed.