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Just weeks after raising hundreds of millions of dollars from , San Francisco-based AI startup and rival to , is raising another $300 million round at a pre-investment valuation of $4.1 billion.

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is reportedly leading the round.

Just last month it was reported Google had invested between $300 million and $400 million in the startup. The reported the deal gave Google a 10% stake in the company, and came just two weeks after news broke of 鈥檚 massive $10 billion investment into .

Anthropic鈥檚 AI chatbot, Claude, is in closed beta mode, but , it is expected to combat harmful prompts by explaining why they are dangerous or misguided.

Before the massive fundraising this year, Anthropic 鈥� which has reportedly made limited revenue 鈥� had raised $704 million across Series A and Series B funding rounds in 2022, according to SA国际传媒 data.听

The Series B was led by disgraced founder .

AI craze

The new funding further illustrates investors’ insatiable appetite for all things AI. This week alone has seen hundreds of millions of investment dollars dedicated to AI startups.听

On Tuesday 鈥檚 venture arm 鈥� 1 鈥� launched a new $250 million generative AI fund that will look at promising generative AI startups. The firm announced at TrailblazerDX it will initially invest in four AI companies 鈥� Anthropic, , Hearth.AI and .

That same day, New York-based conversation AI startup raised a $175 million investment 鈥嬧�媗ed by and .

New York-based , which plans to launch a product that incorporates artificial intelligence into a consumer device and partners with OpenAI, raised $100 million.

Further reading:

• Salesforce And Its Venture Arm Latest To Join AI Craze
• We鈥檝e Seen This Before: Investors Take To The Next Shiny Toy 鈥� AI

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