Their last funding round was at a $380 billion valuation in February, which is less than half of todays numbers just three months ago.
The news was first reported by The Financial Times, who says the round is co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital, all offering $2B each, while Anthropic is in talks with «additional investors.»
Anthropic has been on a tear lately, growing its user base 80-fold last quarter, and struggling with the compute power needed, but this is now largely solved.
They are also expected to pass $45 billion in annualized revenue «shortly,» which is five times what they had at the end of last year, Investing.com writes.
Read more: Financial Times (paywalled), The Information (paywalled), and Investing.com.