Anthropic announced Tuesday that it raised $13 billion in a funding round valuing the artificial intelligence startup at $183 billion.

The company will use the capital infusion to expand capacity, deepen safety research, and support international expansion.

Anthropic, known for its Claude chatbot and AI models, competes with offerings from Google, OpenAI, Meta, and Microsoft in a generative AI race that is costing tens of billions of dollars.

According to reports, Anthropic’s main rival, ChatGPT maker OpenAI, is in discussions to allow employees to cash out shares in a transaction that would value the company at about $500 billion.

The sky-high valuations come despite emerging doubts about whether the financing of generative AI startups is sustainable, with companies requiring high spe

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