Humanity CEO Dario Amody spoke about CNBC’s “Scoobox” outside the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland on January 21, 2025.
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CNBC is in discussions to raise a $3.5 billion funding round for humanity.
The round almost triples the AI startup’s rating to $61.5 billion. Lightspeed Venture Partners is leading the funding, along with participation from others such as General Catalyst, sources say.
Funding, first reported by the Wall Street Journal, continues to demand investors for the highest tier AI companies, even in the face of potential disruptions from China’s Deepseek. Humanity is supported by Amazon and Google, and sources say it was initially trying to raise $2 billion.
Humanity declined to comment.
The company’s last private market valuation was $18 billion. Amazon has poured $8 billion into startups.
Humanity was founded by early Openai employees and is the creator of the popular chatbot Claude. Earlier on Monday, humanity released what it calls “the most intelligent AI model ever.” The so-called hybrid models combine the ability to reason or stop thinking about complex answers with traditional models that spit out answers in real time.
