Salesforce's Anthropic Stake Reaches $5 Billion After Repeated Investments Since 2023
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Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 1
Salesforce's Anthropic Stake Reaches $5 Billion After Repeated Investments Since 2023
7 articles · Updated · Bloomberg · Jun 1
$5 billion is the current value of Salesforce's stake in Anthropic, revealing the scale of the software company's exposure to one of the fastest-rising AI startups.
About $50 million was Salesforce's initial investment in early 2023, and it kept adding capital in subsequent fundraising rounds, according to a person familiar with the matter.
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