Anthropic Raises $450 Million to Develop Transparent AI Assistant Claude

Anthropic, a generative AI startup co-founded by OpenAI veterans, has raised $450 million in a Series C funding round led by Spark Capital.
Tech giants including Google, Salesforce, and Zoom participated in the financing, signaling a strong belief in the promise of Anthropic's tech.
Anthropic plans to create a "next-gen algorithm for AI self-teaching" and compete with OpenAI and other startups in the text-generating AI space.
Anthropic's technique for training AI, called "constitutional AI," seeks to align AI with human intentions by imbuing systems with "values" defined by a "constitution."
Anthropic aims to raise as much as $5 billion over the next two years to grow its product offerings, support businesses that will responsibly deploy its technology, and further AI safety research.