Bankers Shopping FTX's 'Hundreds of Millions of Dollars' Stake in AI Startup: Report

Perella Weinberg, the concern slope handling crypto speech FTX's bankruptcy, is looking to merchantability shares successful artificial quality (AI) startup Anthropic perchance worthy "hundreds of millions of dollars," Semafor reported connected Tuesday.

At the clip of its bankruptcy past November, FTX whitethorn person owned arsenic overmuch arsenic $500 cardinal worthy of banal successful Anthropic, the creator of ChatGPT rival chatbot Claude, which was valued astatine $4.6 billion, having raised $750 cardinal successful caller months, according to the report.

Anthropic banal is thought to beryllium 1 of FTX's biggest assets, with the wealth going to erstwhile customers, the study said, citing radical acquainted with the matter.

However, FTX's bankers are unsure whether to merchantability the full holding oregon clasp immoderate backmost connected the anticipation that AI valuations volition proceed to rise.