Anthropic on Monday closed its latest funding round at a $61.5 billion post-money valuation, the company confirmed to CNBC. The $3.5 billion round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners, and other investors included Salesforce Ventures,

Amazon-backed AI company Anthropic has raised $3.5 billion in its Series E round with a post-money valuation of $61.5 billion. The round was led by Lightspeed Venture Partners and also saw participation from Bessemer Venture Partners,

The Series E deal comes less than two months after the company raised $1 billion from Google LLC. Two months before that, Amazon.com Inc. doubled its investment in Anthropic to $8 billion. Amazon Web Services became the artificial intelligence provider’s primary cloud provider last September.

Anthropic said Monday it raised $3.5 billion in its latest funding round, giving the Amazon- and Google-backed AI startup a $61.5 billion post-money valuation. Lightspeed Venture Partners led the funding round,

Along with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, Anthropic made available in a limited research preview a digital “agent” called Claude Code.

Anthropic, the AI startup founded by a group of former OpenAI employees, announced today that it has completed its latest funding round, raising $3.5 billion at a $61.5 billion valuation. The company,

The announcement follows new fund-raising efforts from rivals like OpenAI, which is set to close a deal that values the company at $300 billion, and Elon Musk’s xAI.