Amazon-backed AI firm Anthropic valued at $61.5 billion after latest round

The startup plans to use the latest funding to advance its development of next-generation AI, particularly to "expand its compute capacity, deepen its research in mechanistic interpretability and alignment, and accelerate its international expansion in Asia and Europe," according to a release.Anthropic, the artificial intelligence startup backed heavily by Amazon , was founded by former OpenAI research executives. It launched Claude in March 2023, and like OpenAI's ChatGPT and Google's Gemini, Claude has ex ...