Humanity CEO Dario Amody spoke at CNBC’s Scokebox on January 21, 2025 outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland.
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Humanity announced Tuesday that artificial intelligence startups worth their final salary increases in March have almost tripled to shut down a $13 billion funding round at a $183 billion post-money valuation.
The latest funding round was led by Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Other investors including Altimeter, General Catalyst and Coatue also participated, Humanity said.
“This funding demonstrates the extraordinary confidence of investors in our financial performance and the strength of our collaboration with us to continue unprecedented growth,” Human Finance Director Krishna Rao said in a statement.
Humanity’s reputation has been a steep climb since the announcement of AI Assistant Claude in March 2023. Amazon– The backed startup was founded by former Openai research executives, including CEO Dario Amodei.
Openai and humanity are fierce competitors in the AI market. As CNBC reported in August, Openai, which became mainstream after the release of AI Chatbot ChatGpt in 2022, is preparing to sell its shares as part of a secondary sale that values the company at around $500 billion.
As of August, Anthropic said its operating revenues had reached more than $5 billion, from around $1 billion at the start of the year. Humanity serves more than 300,000 business customers, the company said.
He said that humanity will use its fresh capital to deepen safety research, meet growing demand for businesses and support international expansion.
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