Raison Venture Fund from Kazakhstan has invested $1,500,000 in a competitor to ChatGPT

Raison Holding, with an office in Almaty, has acquired a stake in the American startup Anthropic, a competitor of OpenAI, the company that developed ChatGPT. The funding amount is $1,500,000. The investment was made as part of Anthropic's Series C funding round.

Anthropic is one of the leading developers of generative artificial intelligence in the world, alongside OpenAI and Google DeepMind. The company was founded in 2021 in California by former OpenAI employees who were responsible for creating the GPT-2 and GPT-3 models. In particular, Anthropic's CEO, Dario Amodei, was previously the Vice President of Research at OpenAI.

In just two years since its founding, Anthropic has raised over $1,000,000,000, with investors including Google, Spark Capital, Salesforce Ventures, Zoom Ventures, and others. During the Series C round, the company raised $450,000,000 at a valuation of approximately $4,500,000,000.

Source: digitalbusiness.kz