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Dario Amodei, 43, made his remarks at Anthropic’s annual developer conference in San Francisco, where he and other executives gave a glimpse into the company’s plans.

Anthropic’s CEO says it could grow by 80 times this year

The company is one of the world’s leading AI startups with its Claude chatbot and its popular AI coding tool, Claude Code

Anthropic has seen demand surge in recent months as more customers flock to use its tools to streamline the process of coding and other tasks.

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Anthropic is releasing AI agents that it says can draft pitch decks for client meetings, review financial statements and escalate cases for compliance review.

Anthropic unveils AI agents to field financial services tasks

The Claude maker now has more than 300,000 business customers who use its technologies to automate parts of their work

Anthropic has said that it trains and runs Claude on a range of AI hardware, including Amazon Web Services’ Trainium, Google TPUs and Nvidia GPUs.

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Alphabet is also investing up to US$40 billion in the artificial intelligence startup

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The startup has raised well over US$100 billion from investors to hire researchers, buy computing power and expand the company

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The new discussions, which have not been reported, coincide with a push by Anthropic to ramp up fundraising amid the breakout success of its AI software.

Anthropic considering funding offers at over US$900 billion value

The Claude maker has been on the hunt for more infrastructure to meet growing demand for its products