Finance Associated Press, December 27 (Intern Editor Pei Xinyi).According to **, two people familiar with the inside story broke the news that artificial intelligence startup Anthropic expects the company's annualized revenue to exceed 8. by the end of 2024$500 million.
Another person close to the company told ** that Anthropic's annualized revenue could reach $1 billion next year, or $83 million per month.
Last week, it was also reported that the company was also discussing a new round of funding led by Menlo Ventures, which raised 7$500 million. And, in the past few months, Google and Amazon have agreed to invest $2 billion and $4 billion, respectively, in the company.
According to the report, three months ago, Anthropic had told some investors that the company's revenue was $100 million that year, and that figure is expected to increase to $500 million by the end of 2024.
In just three months, Anthropic's performance target for next year has jumped sharply, indicating that its business expansion trend is quite good.
With the support of Amazon and Google, the AI startup has entered the AIGC space and has become one of the leading teams in the field, which has formed a strong challenge to the industry leader, Microsoft-backed OpenAI. According to previous reports, OpenAI's revenue is expected to reach $1.3 billion this year.
It's worth mentioning that Anthropic was co-founded by former OpenAI executives and siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. The company's Claude AI model is in head-to-head competition with OpenAI's GPT series.