PANews reported on February 26 that according to Bloomberg, artificial intelligence startup Anthropic is about to complete a US$3.5 billion round of financing, with a valuation of US$61.5 billion, higher than the initially planned financing target.

Anthropic is one of the leading developers of large-scale language models, attracting the attention of many investors. So far this year, Elon Musk's xAI has sought to raise $10 billion, and OpenAI is negotiating up to $40 billion in financing.

Sources revealed that Lightspeed Venture Partners had pushed Anthropic to raise $2 billion earlier this year, and later expanded the financing target to $3.5 billion, with oversubscription, showing the market's high interest in the company. Potential investors include Menlo Ventures, Bessemer Venture Partners, General Catalyst and Abu Dhabi's MGX.