Anthropic Receives $100 Million Investment from SK Telecom

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic received an investment of 450 million dollars in May. The US artificial intelligence startup came to the agenda with a new investment. The US startup turned its investment route to Asia by joining the shareholders of Google and Spark Capital. In this context, it announced that it received an investment of $ 100 million from ST Telecom, one of the largest telecommunications companies in South Korea.

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Anthropic and SK Telecom Will Sign Joint Project

Anthropic did not provide information to the press about its current evaluation after the investment. However, it was stated that SK Telecom invested in the US venture for the 2nd time and even participated in the investment round in May in a small amount. At the same time, it was announced that the two companies will work on a new project after the new investment. SK Telecom issued a press release on Sunday. SK Telecom officials said they are considering developing a large multilingual artificial intelligence model focused on global telecommunications with the US startup. They are also considering creating a platform that utilises artificial intelligence.

Anthropic; It was founded in 2021 by Tom Brown, Daniela Amodei, Jack Clark, Dario Amodei and Sam McCandlish. The US startup offers the following services to companies with its artificial intelligence assistant Claude;