According to individuals with knowledge of the matter, following multiple investment rounds and the completion of Anthropic's latest funding round, Salesforce.com's equity stake in the cutting-edge AI company Anthropic is now valued at approximately $5 billion.
Bloomberg first reported this valuation on Monday. The positive news drove Salesforce's stock price up nearly 10% that day, narrowing its year-to-date decline to 21%. Anthropic announced last week that it had secured $65 billion in funding, resulting in a post-money valuation of $900 billion, which is 15 times its valuation from a year ago.
The sources confirmed that Salesforce began investing in Anthropic starting in 2023 and has participated in several subsequent funding rounds. Furthermore, the AI assistant Slackbot, integrated into Salesforce's workplace collaboration software Slack, utilizes Anthropic's Claude model as its underlying large language model.
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