The San Francisco-based company’s Series C, led by Spark Capital, comes after the company reportedly raised about US$300 million from Google late last year. The company aims to use the new funding round, with participation from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures, Zoom Ventures and others, to develop its AI assistant “Claude.” (The Logic)

Talking point: AI companies are attracting investments at a rapid clip to fund the growth of the expensive technology. Anthropic’s focus on safety seems to be attracting investor support amid growing concerns about whether AI has adequate regulatory guardrails. The company said Claude will better handle “adversarial” conversations and be more “honest” about its behaviours and limitations. Anthropic—which was founded by former executives from ChatGPT maker OpenAI, and previously valued as high as US$4.1 billion—did not disclose its latest valuation in Tuesday’s funding announcement. Meanwhile, concerns about nefarious AI use escalated Monday, when a fake, AI-generated photo of an explosion at the Pentagon circulated online, sparking a brief dip in major stock indices.