Anthropic will reportedly receive an additional $1 billion from Google

Anthropic has reportedly raised nearly $1 billion from Google as the AI ​​company looks to roll out a number of major product updates this year.

First informed According to the Financial Times, Google’s new investment brings the tech giant’s total stake in Anthropic to around $3 billion. Google poured $2 billion to Anthropic late last year.

Anthropic, that is but also in the process It has an ambitious roadmap to 2025 to raise up to $2 billion from investors, including Lightspeed, which is valued at $60 billion.

a series of interviews Yesterday, Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei said the company plans to launch new AI models, bring “two-way” voice chat and internet access to chatbot Claude, and introduce an AI system called “Virtual Collaborator”. According to Amodei, the Virtual Assistant will work on computers, run workflows, write and compile code (and check results), and communicate with users through apps like Slack and Google Docs.

According to Crunchbase, the outfit has now raised a total of $14.7 billion.