Demis Hassabis, the founder of Google DeepMind, was an early investor in Anthropic, a previously undisclosed stake that highlights the Nobel laureate’s growing influence across the AI industry.
People familiar with the matter said Hassabis was an angel investor in Anthropic, which has since become a key AI rival and among the world’s fastest-growing start-ups.
Google has separately invested billions of dollars in Anthropic as part of its cloud and AI partnership with the company. Anthropic chief Dario Amodei considers Hassabis a role model, according to people close to the company, which was recently valued by investors at $900bn.
News of the investment comes as former DeepMind researchers have founded more than a dozen companies since 2021, raising at least $14bn, according to PitchBook and Dealroom. They include UK-based Isomorphic Labs, also founded by Hassabis, and Ineffable Intelligence, which together raised more than $3bn in the past month from investors.
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