5 Best-Funded AI Startups in 2023

2. Anthropic

Funds Raised: $1.5 Billion
Valuation: $4.1 Billion

Anthropic bills itself as artificial intelligence safety and research company. Based in San Francisco, the startup specializes in developing general AI systems and language models. The company was the subject of a $300 million investment from Google at the start of the year.

Founded in 2021, the startup has already developed an intelligent chatbot dubbed Claude that rivals ChatGPT. The startup has raised a total of $1.5 billion over five rounds. The latest was a $450 million raise at a close to $4.1 billion valuation.