According to CoinWorld news, AI company Anthropic is negotiating to raise $2 billion, which will value the company at approximately $60 billion. As reported by the Wall Street Journal on January 7, Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading this round of financing. Anthropic's valuation was $18 billion in December 2023, indicating that its valuation may have increased by over 233% within 12 months. Amazon and Google have invested billions of dollars in Anthropic in 2023 and 2024. Cointelegraph reached out to Anthropic for details about the deal but had not received a response by the time of publication. Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former members of OpenAI and released its AI large language model Claude in 2023, competing with OpenAI's ChatGPT. Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated that AI technology may surpass human capabilities by 2026. OpenAI CEO Sam Altman also predicts that AI agents will 'join the workforce' within the next 12 months.