Schmidt reportedly owns 1% of Anthropic
TechCrunch: Eric Schmidt reportedly owns about half as much of Anthropic as CEO Dario Amodei
The former Google CEO owns about 1% stake in the leading AI lab, Bloomberg reported.
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Eric Schmidt, the former Google CEO, reportedly owns about 1% of Anthropic after investing tens of millions of dollars in the AI company's 2021 Series A round, when it was valued at $461 million. Schmidt's stake is notably larger than the 2% owned by Anthropic's co-founder and CEO Dario Amodei. Anthropic is expected to go public before the end of the year with potential valuations as high as $2 trillion, which could add as much as $20 billion to Schmidt's current net worth of $57.5 billion. Schmidt has been an active tech investor since 2011 through multiple investment entities and has other AI investments in addition to Anthropic.
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