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Krishna Rao was appointed Anthropic's first Chief Financial Officer in May 2024.
Anthropic is now reportedly seeking to raise $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation.
KEY POINTS
- Krishna Rao secured exclusive access to SpaceX's Colossus 1 data centre with 220,000 Nvidia GPUs.
- Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate climbed from $87 million in January 2024 to $1 billion by December.
- Rao spends 30%-40% of his time on compute procurement to balance operational risk and frontier progress.
- Anthropic faced legal friction with the Pentagon over supply-chain risk related to an AI safety guardrail.
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