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Amount: $4B 🎉
Round: Corporate Round
Investor: Amazon
Anthropic, founded by former Open AI researchers & backed by Google, is a leading foundational AI model provider with safety as a core principle.
They just raised their 5th round for the year:
Feb 2023 - $300M from Google
May 2023 - $450M from Spark Capital
July 2023 - $100M+ from SAP
August 2023 - $100M from SK Telecom
Its flagship model, Claude, powers AI products at Zoom, Notion, and Poe. They’ve made significant advancements with Claude including increasing context windows - essentially, the model’s memory - to 100K tokens. That means that you can input a whole book into a model instead of just a few paragraphs like in ChatGPT.
Amount: $9M 🎉
Round: Seed
Lead Investor: Fifty Years
Elicit’s mission is to automate the process of scientific literature review. They aim to deliver cost and time savings to academic and industry research organizations producing these reviews.
Elicit has developed an AI-powered tool that serves as a “research assistant” for scientists and R&D labs. It automates literature review by finding relevant papers, extracting key information about the studies, and organizing the information into concepts.
1/ Announcing our spinoff from @oughtinc into a public benefit corporation, our $9 million seed round, and a much more powerful Elicit!
This new Elicit takes the components of the popular literature review workflow and extends them to automate more research workflows.
— Elicit (@elicitorg)
3:22 PM • Sep 25, 2023
Amount: $8M 🎉
Round: Corporate
Lead Investor: CoreWeave
Chai’s mission is to provide users with the ultimate experience through its AI chat entertainment app.
Its app wields a new breed of machine-learning prowess that seems almost supernatural. It dances on the boundaries of creativity, capable of churning out text, art, and ideas that blur the lines between human and machine. This is AI not just as a tool, but as a companion – a confidante that shares cool ideas and gives you inspiration when you’re ready to listen.
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