Anthropic has reportedly raised around $1 billion from Google as the AI company looks to deliver a number of major product updates this year.
First reported by the Financial Times, Google’s fresh investment brings the tech giant’s total stake in Anthropic to around $3 billion. Google poured $2 billion into Anthropic late last year.
Anthropic, which is also in the process of raising up to $2 billion from investors including Lightspeed at a $60 billion valuation, has an ambitious roadmap for 2025.
In a series of interviews yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said that the company plans to launch new AI models, bring “two-way” voice chat and web access to its chatbot, Claude, and roll out an AI system called the “Virtual Collaborator.” According to Amodei, the Virtual Collaborator will run on PCs, execute workflows, write and compile code (and verify the results), and interact with users through apps like Slack and Google Docs.
According to Crunchbase, the outfit has now raised $14.7 billion altogether.
