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Matt Marshall@AI News | VentureBeat
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Anthropic has recently secured a substantial $3.5 billion in funding, catapulting the company's valuation to $61.5 billion. This significant investment underscores the robust investor confidence in Anthropic's AI technology and its capacity for future growth. The funding positions Anthropic as a major player in the competitive landscape of advanced AI, rivaling industry leaders like OpenAI. The company has been making notable strides, particularly with its Claude 3.7 Sonnet model, which has demonstrated impressive coding performance and is increasingly becoming the coding agent of choice for enterprise companies.
Alongside this financial boost, Anthropic's Claude 3.7 Sonnet has been setting new benchmarks in AI coding. The model achieved a notable score of 70.3% on the SWE-bench benchmark, surpassing competitors like OpenAI's o1 and DeepSeek-R1. Furthermore, Anthropic launched Claude Code, an AI coding agent designed to accelerate application development. CEO Dario Amodei has even suggested that AI could potentially replace 90% of developers in a mere six months, automating nearly every coding task. Recommended read:
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Apple has announced a massive $500 billion investment in the United States over the next four years, signaling a significant boost to American manufacturing and innovation. This commitment includes the establishment of a new AI server manufacturing facility in Texas, expected to open in 2026. The 250,000-square-foot facility near Houston will produce servers powering Apple Intelligence and Private Cloud Compute, previously manufactured overseas, creating thousands of jobs.
Apple's investment also encompasses the creation of 20,000 new jobs nationwide, with a focus on research and development, silicon engineering, software development, and AI and machine learning. Furthermore, Apple is doubling its U.S. Advanced Manufacturing Fund to $10 billion, supporting innovation and high-skilled manufacturing. The fund includes a multibillion-dollar commitment to advanced silicon chip production at TSMC's Arizona facility and the opening of an "Apple Manufacturing Academy" in Detroit, Michigan. Recommended read:
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Major tech companies are significantly expanding their AI presence in Saudi Arabia. Salesforce has announced a $500 million investment to drive AI innovation and growth in the region, introducing its Hyperforce advanced platform architecture to the Saudi market. This move aims to foster workforce development through AI skilling and enhance Salesforce's local partner ecosystem. Salesforce is also planning to team up with Deloitte, Capgemini, Globant, IBM, and PwC.
Groq has secured a substantial $1.5 billion commitment from the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA) to expand the delivery of its advanced LPU-based AI inference infrastructure. This partnership aims to support the Kingdom's Vision 2030 goal of an AI-powered economy. GroqCloud services are now available to nearly four billion people regionally, adjacent to the KSA and is now enabling service to the EMEA and South Asia markets in ways unseen before. The rapid installation established a critical AI hub to serve surging compute demand globally. Recommended read:
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AI is increasingly becoming a central topic of discussion among experts and governments alike. The French public investment bank has announced a significant commitment to the field, stating it will invest €10 billion into AI by 2029. This investment will target AI model development, infrastructure, hardware, and funds that support companies in the sector.
Experts are also exploring how AI can combat societal issues, including gender discrimination. AI can be used to assess the gender impact of proposed laws, prevent discrimination, track gender representation in leadership, and encourage gender quotas to address inequalities. AI systems could analyze and draft gender-sensitive laws by finding patterns of discrimination. Recommended read:
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Meta, led by CEO Mark Zuckerberg, is significantly increasing its investment in AI infrastructure, projecting a capital expenditure of $60 to $80 billion in 2025. This substantial investment is primarily targeted towards building new data centers and expanding its GPU capacity, aiming to possess over 1.3 million GPUs by the end of the year. This aggressive move is in response to the intensifying competition within the AI sector, fueled by the rise of open source AI models and advancements particularly from Chinese AI companies, and also the AI race with other tech companies such as Microsoft who are also spending billions on AI.
This massive expansion is intended to support Meta's ambitions in generative AI with Llama 4, aiming to develop an 'AI engineer' and to become a leading AI assistant serving billions of users. The company is building a massive data center consuming over 1 gigawatt of compute power this year which will eventually rise to 2 gigawatts, a move that is expected to drive core product development and extend American technology leadership. Meta's planned investment is part of a broader industry trend where rivals like Microsoft and OpenAI are also making significant financial commitments to build out AI infrastructure. Recommended read:
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