Anthropic AI raises $100m from South Korea to bolster telecommunications industry

Synthetic intelligence (AI) developer Anthropic announced on Aug. 13 that it’s receiving an extra $100 million in funding from the South Korean telecommunications large SK Telecom. 

In accordance with the announcement, the funding comes alongside a collaboration between the 2 firms with a purpose to develop a multilingual giant language mannequin (LLM) for the Telco AI Platform.

The forthcoming LLM shall be accessible in together with Korean, English, German, Japanese, Arabic and Spanish and goals to permit for the creation of custom-made AI companies for international telecom service suppliers.

Dario Amodei, the co-founder and CEO of Anthropic, mentioned that SKT has “unbelievable ambitions” to make the most of AI to “remodel” the way in which the telecommunications {industry} features.

“We see industry-specific LLMs as having excessive potential to create safer and extra dependable deployments of AI know-how.”

Moreover, the businesses plan to work together to assist “advantageous tune” Anthropic’s newest mannequin Claude 2, which was launched on July 11. 

This improvement comes as South Korea has been highlighted by leaders within the AI {industry} as a market positioned for progress, notably within the space of chip improvement. 

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Anthropic was based by former members of the main AI improvement firm OpenAI, which is backed by Microsoft.

In Could it closed its Series C funding round wherein it raised $450 million from Google, Salesforce Ventures, Sound Ventures and Zoom Ventures. The corporate obtained its first major investment from Google through Google Cloud again in February 2023.

The now-bankrupt cryptocurrency change FTX also invested in Anthropic. On the time of its chapter submitting the previous change’s place was value round $500 million. 

Anthropic has not too long ago been included within the Biden Administration’s AI cybersecurity challenge it posed to main gamers within the {industry} in an effort to guard the USA’ cybersecurity infrastructure.

Moreover, it’s a member of the ‘Frontier Mannequin Discussion board’ together with Google, OpenAI and Microsoft to assist regulate AI development.

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