{"id":986469,"date":"2026-01-20T08:26:21","date_gmt":"2026-01-20T02:56:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=986469"},"modified":"2026-01-20T08:53:35","modified_gmt":"2026-01-20T03:23:35","slug":"after-investing-in-openai-and-xai-sequoia-set-to-back-another-rival-anthropic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/01\/20\/after-investing-in-openai-and-xai-sequoia-set-to-back-another-rival-anthropic\/","title":{"rendered":"After investing in OpenAI and xAI, Sequoia set to back another rival, Anthropic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital is joining the group of investors funding artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, valuing the company at $350 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times.<\/p>\n<p>Sequoia&#8217;s portfolio already includes OpenAI and xAI. All three companies are direct rivals.<\/p>\n<p>Anthropic&#8217;s funding round is being led by Singapore&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund GIC and US investor Coatue. Each fund will contribute $1.5 billion to Anthropic&#8217;s raise, which is targeting $25 billion or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sequoia Capital is joining the group of investors funding artificial intelligence (AI) startup Anthropic, valuing the company at $350 billion, according to a report in the Financial Times. Sequoia&#8217;s portfolio already includes OpenAI and xAI. All three companies are direct rivals. Anthropic&#8217;s funding round is being led by Singapore&#8217;s sovereign wealth fund GIC and US investor Coatue. Each fund will contribute $1.5 billion to Anthropic&#8217;s raise, which is targeting $25 billion or more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-986469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=986469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/986469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=986469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=986469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=986469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}