Anthropic Responds to Music Publishers' Motion for Preliminary Injunction: Using Copyrighted Content as LLM Training Data is Reasonable


A capital frenzy is sweeping global artificial intelligence infrastructure development. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group plan to jointly launch a debt financing of approximately $36 billion, providing financial support to AI unicorn Anthropic through a 'rent-to-own' model. This will become one of the largest private credit transactions in history, accelerating the deployment of top-tier AI infrastructure.
The US large model company Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which performed well in multiple rankings, but was exposed to have cognitive confusion issues. Internet users found through API testing that when asking about its identity, the model incorrectly claimed to be Alibaba's Qwen or DeepSeek, among other Chinese open-source large models, drawing attention.
Anthropic announced that its annual revenue has exceeded 47 billion dollars, demonstrating the huge potential of generative AI in commercialization. Since the Series B funding round in February, the flagship model Claude has seen a major breakthrough in the enterprise market, driving rapid growth in performance and highlighting the intensifying competition in the AI industry.
AI company Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H funding round, with a post-investment valuation of $965 billion. Led by Altimeter Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Samsung and others, this is seen as the final private round before IPO. The funds include prior commitments from tech giants like Amazon.....
At NVIDIA's employee meeting, some employees were concerned that using AI intensively might only be superficial. CEO Huang Renxun responded by encouraging employees to embrace new technology, pointing out that when facing new tools, perfection is not necessary, and the key is to take the first step. He emphasized that it is acceptable to slightly waste money when exploring AI, but time must never be wasted, as AI is far from being superficial.