Anthropic Gets $450 Million Funding to Improve Ethical AI

Anthropic raised $450 million in its latest funding round. The Google-backed company will use the cash to improve its AI systems including chatbot Claude and support ongoing research on ethical issues around the technology.

Anthropic said the investment was led by venture capital company Spark Capital and includes backing from technology giants including its biggest stakeholder Google and Salesforce. Zoom Video Communications’ ventures arm was also named as a backer, although the company already announced a partnership with Anthropic last week.

The fresh capital will support Anthropic’s work developing language models, CEO Dario Amodei said. He added that adding it would aid its mission to put safety at the frontier of AI research and development. Anthropic also aims to grow its AI product portfolio and stated it is working on a feature that will allow business clients to submit hundreds of pages of materials to be analyzed by Claude.