The Wall Street Journal reported that artificial intelligence company Anthropic's next round of funding will increase to $35 billion, raising its market capitalization to $615 billion. Meanwhile, Anthropic recently announced the launch of its new Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model, which boasts of being able to adjust its "thinking" based on the context of the question, allowing it to respond faster or offer more thoughtful answers.
Following recent developments and collaborations with numerous cloud service providers, Anthropic's next round of investment is expected to include participation from Lightspeed Venture Partners, General Catalyst Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners, and Abu Dhabi investment company Mubadala Fund (MGX), with an estimated investment of $35 billion. This brings Anthropic's total funding to $180 billion and increases its market capitalization to $615 billion.
Anthropic claims that the Claude 3.7 Sonnet artificial intelligence model, proposed earlier, will be the first model design on the market to adopt a hybrid reasoning architecture, allowing users to adjust their "thinking" mode according to their needs, allowing the artificial intelligence model to provide answers more quickly or reach answers through careful reasoning.
Anthropic said it hopes to allow artificial intelligence models to imitate the thinking patterns of the human brain and build their inference capabilities in different ways, so that the way artificial intelligence models "think" will be closer to the actual needs of users when working and solving problems.
The Claude 3.7 Sonnet AI model is now available to all users, and developers can access it through an API or through hosted platforms such as Amazon Bedrock and Google Cloud's Vertex AI.
In addition, Anthropic has also launched an agent tool called "Claude Code", which allows users to delegate programming tasks to Claude directly from the terminal interface. However, it is currently only open to specific people for limited research preview, allowing this agent tool to read the code content and perform subsequent editing, writing, and testing, and even submit the code content to GitHub for hosting.
