Omar Marques | Lightrocket | Getty Images
Anthropic, the OpenAI rival founded by ex-OpenAI employees, is in talks to raise a $750 million funding round led by Menlo Ventures, a person with direct knowledge of the matter told CNBC.
The round would value Anthropic at up to $18.4 billion, per the source familiar — nearly 4.5x the startup’s $4.1 billion valuation earlier this year.
News of the fundraise was previously reported by