The AI company, developers of the Claude family of large language models, has reached a $183 billion valuation following its latest funding round. This is a dramatic increase since the beginning of the year highlighting the accelerated growth of AI applications.
The company announced Tuesday that it has closed its $13 billion Series F round co-led by venture companies Iconiq Capital, Fidelity Management & Research Company and Lightspeed Venture Partners.
Some of North America’s most prominent investors joined the pay raises, reflecting a surge in institutional interest in artificial intelligence as a disruptive technology.
Supporters include Altimeter, Baillie Gifford, Cotue, Goldman Sachs Growth Equity, Jane Street, and T. It includes funds affiliated with RowePrice Investment Management, Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan, and BlackRock.
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The $183 billion valuation is more than three times the reported value of humanity in January, when it closed its $2 billion fundraiser. The company is still working to commercialize its technology, but it already has revenue execution rates above $5 billion, and currently counts over 300,000 business customers.
Although human relations with the blockchain industry are limited, one of its oldest backers was FTX, a disrupted crypto exchange founded by Sam Bankman-Fried. FTX acquired a 7.8% stake in humanity in 2022. After the collapse, FTX began offloading shares in AI development companies in 2024.
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Crypto Claude
The Anthropic Claude family is designed as a general purpose AI assistant for applications spanning knowledge management, market analysis, content creation, programming and research.
In the crypto industry, Claude has already been adopted in some of the largest exchanges in the sector. Coinbase uses Claude to enhance customer support and internal operations, while Crypto.com relies on the Claude 3 model via Amazon Bedrock to provide real-time sentiment analytics across the global market.
Humanity said that with Coinbase’s Claude deployment, exchanges can serve millions of users, process thousands of messages per hour, and significantly reduce customer service processing time.
Some industry observers argue that artificial intelligence plays a fundamental role in the cryptocurrency sector, offering one of the few viable ways for businesses to ensure compliance in markets defined by uninterrupted round transactions.
In the opinion of Cointelegraph, Currency.com’s global CEO Konstantin Anissimov described the “stagematic transition from human-centric workflows to embedded, AI-driven decision-making systems,” adding:
“In practice, these tools help map wallet behavior, interpret anomalies across the chain, and detect discrepancies between business logic and regulatory zones at real time and at large scale.”
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