Anthropic超越OpenAI成全球最“贵”AI初创公司

近日，Anthropic宣布完成650亿美元H轮融资，投后估值飙升至9650亿美元，一举超越OpenAI成为全球估值最高的人工智能初创公司。

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1. According to the article, which of the following is NOT a factor contributing to Anthropic's recent success?

A. Its ability to generate computer code effectively.

B. Its public stance on A.I. regulation and safety.

C. Its partnership with the Pentagon on warfare A.I.

D. Its new flagship model, Claude Opus 4.8.

无注释原文：

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World's Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up

From: The New York Times

Anthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor to OpenAI, has been on an inexorable rise over the past few months.

The San Francisco company recently dueled with the Pentagon over the use of A.I. in warfare. It released a powerful A.I. model, Mythos, that it said was uncannily capable of finding and exploiting hidden flaws in software. And the company advised Pope Leo XIV on his papal encyclical delivered on Monday, in which he warned about safeguarding humanity from A.I.'s most disruptive effects.

On Thursday, Anthropic punctuated its ascent by officially passing OpenAI as the world's highest-flying A.I. start-up. Anthropic said it had raised $65 billion in financing that values it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital, a deal that puts it ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730 billion. The company also unveiled a new flagship A.I. model, Claude Opus 4.8, which is significantly better than its predecessor at generating computer code.

The new investment, which was led by investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, boosted Anthropic's value to nearly two and a half times its previous valuation of $380 billion about three months ago.

The funding underlined the company's success in developing A.I. technology that excels in writing software code, which has turned into a robust business. Since Anthropic improved its A.I. coding technology in November, hundreds of businesses have signed up to pay for the software. The company said its “revenue run rate,” which is its expected revenue for the year based on its current performance, crossed $47 billion this month.

“This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,” said Krishna Rao, Anthropic's chief financial officer.

Anthropic's trajectory stands out, even amid a heated frenzy over A.I. Just 62 days ago, OpenAI — which had kicked off the A.I. boom with its release of the ChatGPT chatbot in 2022 — announced it had raised $122 billion in a funding round that put its value at $730 billion, a number that it took roughly a decade to achieve. Anthropic, which was founded in 2021, has surpassed that in half the time.

The company's momentum has gathered steam in recent months as Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, has spoken out about the potential dangers of A.I. and called for regulation of the technology. That led to a bitter fight with the Pentagon over how A.I. should be used in warfare, among other public imbroglios.

Anthropic's rise only adds to its contest with OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX as the private companies race to go public.

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含注释全文：

Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World's Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up

From: The New York Times

Anthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor to OpenAI, has been on an inexorable rise over the past few months.

曾几何时，Anthropic还是OpenAI的一个名气较小的人工智能竞争对手，但在过去几个月里，该公司的崛起势不可挡。

inexorable /ɪˈnek.sər.ə.bəl/ 表示“不可阻拦的”，英文解释为“continuing without any possibility of being stopped”如：the inexorable progress of science 不可阻挡的科学进步。

The San Francisco company recently dueled with the Pentagon over the use of A.I. in warfare. It released a powerful A.I. model, Mythos, that it said was uncannily capable of finding and exploiting hidden flaws in software. And the company advised Pope Leo XIV on his papal encyclical delivered on Monday, in which he warned about safeguarding humanity from A.I.'s most disruptive effects.

这家总部位于旧金山的公司最近因在战争中使用人工智能的问题与五角大楼发生冲突。它发布了一款强大的人工智能模型Mythos，并宣称该模型在发现和利用软件中隐藏的缺陷方面具有不可思议的能力。此外，该公司还为良十四世教宗周一发表的通谕提供了建议，教宗在通谕中警告称，要保护人类免受人工智能最具颠覆性影响的冲击。

duel 可数名词，表示“决斗；（激烈的）竞争，斗争”，英文解释为“a formal fight in the past, using guns or swords, arranged between two people as a way of deciding an argument；a difficult competition in which both sides show a lot of effort”

📍duel 也可作动词，举个🌰：The two men duelled to the death. 两个男人决斗到直至有一个人丧命。

📍dueling/duelling 不可数名词，也是指“决斗”（the practice of fighting duels）。

表示“惊异地；神秘地；不寻常地；危险地”，英文解释为“in a way that is uncanny (= strange and mysterious)”

papal /ˈpeɪ.pəl/ 表示“教皇的”，英文解释为“relating to the position or authority of the Pope (= the leader of the Roman Catholic Church)”如：a papal messenger/announcement/election 教皇的使者/通告/选举。

encyclical /enˈsɪk.lɪ.kəl/ 表示“教皇通谕”，英文解释为“a letter from the Pope to Roman Catholic bishops, often about the Church's official opinion on a subject”举个🌰：Several popes wrote encyclicals on the rosary. 好几位教皇都写下过关于玫瑰经念珠的通谕。

On Thursday, Anthropic punctuated its ascent by officially passing OpenAI as the world's highest-flying A.I. start-up. Anthropic said it had raised $65 billion in financing that values it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital, a deal that puts it ahead of OpenAI's last valuation of $730 billion. The company also unveiled a new flagship A.I. model, Claude Opus 4.8, which is significantly better than its predecessor at generating computer code.

周四，Anthropic正式超越OpenAI成为全球最瞩目的人工智能初创公司，为自己的崛起画上了一个惊叹号。Anthropic表示，它已获得了650亿美元的融资，使其在计入新资本前的估值达到了9000亿美元，超过了OpenAI的上一次估值7300亿美元。该公司还推出了全新旗舰人工智能模型Claude Opus 4.8，在生成计算机代码方面的表现明显优于其前代产品。

punctuate /ˈpʌŋk.tʃuː.eɪt/ 1）表示“给…加标点”，英文解释为“to add punctuation marks (= symbols) to writing so that people can see when a sentence starts and finishes, see that something is a question, etc.”

2）表示“不断打断”，英文解释为“to happen or cause something to happen repeatedly while something else is happening； to interrupt something repeatedly”举个🌰：The president spoke at length in a speech punctuated by applause. 总统的长篇大论不时被掌声打断。

3）表示“强调；突出；使…更加引人注目”，英文解释为“to emphasize or make something more noticeable; to highlight or draw attention to something at a particular moment.”举个🌰：The team's victory was punctuated by a spectacular goal in the final minute. 这支队伍的胜利因最后一分钟的一记精彩进球而更加引人注目。

startup / start-up /ˈstɑːt.ʌp/ 表示“刚起步的小企业，新兴小型企业；初创公司”，英文解释为“a small business that has just been started”如：start-up costs 创业成本，举个🌰：Start-ups are very vulnerable in the business world. 商界中刚起步的小企业非常脆弱。

unveil /ʌnˈveɪl/ 1）表示“ 为…揭幕；揭开…上的覆盖物；拉开…的帷幔”，英文解释为“to remove a cover or curtain from a painting, statue, etc. so that it can be seen in public for the first time”举个🌰：She unveiled a plaque to mark the official opening of the hospital. 她主持揭幕式，标志着医院正式启用。

2）表示“（首次）展示，介绍，推出；将…公之于众”，英文解释为“to show or introduce a new plan, product, etc. to the public for the first time”举个🌰：They will be unveiling their new models at the Motor Show. 他们将在汽车大展上首次推出自己的新型汽车。

🎬电影《复仇者联盟1》（The Avengers）中的台词提到：We look beyond the Earth to the greater worlds the Tesseract will unveil. 而我们则放眼地球之外 那些将被宇宙魔方开启的更广博的世界。

🎬电影《超人高校》（Sky High）中的台词提到：We can't unveil the Stronghold Three without Will. 我们不能在威尔（Will）不在场时 向大家介绍斯特朗霍德三侠（Stronghold Three）。

📍词根“-veil”表示"面纱"，前缀“un-”表示“不”。联想宫殿：在宫殿的一个房间，你看到一个被面纱覆盖的新产品即将被“揭露”。近义词：reveal（揭示） 同根词：veil（面纱），常用短语：unveil a plan（公布计划）

flagship /ˈflæɡ.ʃɪp/ 表示“（某机构的）旗舰产品，最重要理念，主建筑物”，英文解释为“the best or most important product, idea, building, etc. that an organization owns or produces”举个🌰：This machine is the flagship in our new range of computers. 这台机器是我们新计算机系列的主打产品。

predecessor /ˈpriː.dɪˌses.ər/ 表示“前任，前辈；原有事物，前身”，英文解释为“someone who had a job or a position before someone else, or something that comes before another thing in time or in a series”

📍successor表示“继任者，接替者；继承人；接替的事物”，英文解释为“someone or something that comes after another person or thing”举个🌰：This range of computers is very fast, but their successors will be even faster. 这个系列的电脑速度很快，但它的换代产品速度会更快。

The new investment, which was led by investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, boosted Anthropic's value to nearly two and a half times its previous valuation of $380 billion about three months ago.

这笔新投资由格林奥克斯资本、红杉资本、阿尔蒂米特资本和德拉戈尼尔投资集团等投资者领投，将Anthropic的价值提升至近两倍半，约三个月前这一数字为3800亿美元。

boost /buːst/ 可以作名词也可以作动词，表示“改善；提高；增强；推动”，英文解释为“to improve or increase something”举个🌰：The theatre managed to boost its audiences by cutting ticket prices. 剧院设法通过降低票价来增加观众数量。

📍“佩洛西有病还是先治病吧”文中提到be boosted，get boosted用来指打了加强针（疫苗），也有说booster shot/booster dose.

The funding underlined the company's success in developing A.I. technology that excels in writing software code, which has turned into a robust business. Since Anthropic improved its A.I. coding technology in November, hundreds of businesses have signed up to pay for the software. The company said its “revenue run rate,” which is its expected revenue for the year based on its current performance, crossed $47 billion this month.

这笔融资凸显了Anthropic在开发精于编写软件代码的人工智能技术方面取得的成功，该技术已演变成一项强劲的业务。自从Anthropic在11月改进了其人工智能编程技术以来，数以百计的企业已经签约付费使用该软件。该公司表示，其“收入运营率”（即根据当前表现预计的年度收入）在本月突破了470亿美元。

underline /ˌʌn.dəˈlaɪn/ 1）表示“（尤指为了强调）在（词语）下面画线”，英文解释为“to draw a line under a word, especially in order to show its importance”举个🌰：All the technical words have been underlined in red. 所有术语的下面都画了红线。

2）表示“强调，突出”，英文解释为“to emphasize”举个🌰：She gave some shocking examples to underline the seriousness of the situation. 她举了一些令人震惊的例子以强调形势的严峻。

excel /ɪkˈsel/ 表示“擅长；善于；突出”，英文解释为“to be very good at doing sth”举个🌰：She has always excelled in foreign languages. 她的外语从来都是出类拔萃。

📍中就提到：体育健儿在国际大赛上再创佳绩。Chinese athletes excelled themselves in international competitions.

🎬电影《热血警探》（Blue Fury）中的台词提到：Academically excelled in theoretical course work and final year examinations. 在校期间理论课成绩和年终测评均为优，

“This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,” said Krishna Rao, Anthropic's chief financial officer.

“这笔资金将帮助我们满足我们正在经历的历史性需求，保持在研究的最前沿，并将Claude带到更多正在开展工作的地方，”Anthropic首席财务官克里希纳·拉奥说。

Anthropic's trajectory stands out, even amid a heated frenzy over A.I. Just 62 days ago, OpenAI — which had kicked off the A.I. boom with its release of the ChatGPT chatbot in 2022 — announced it had raised $122 billion in a funding round that put its value at $730 billion, a number that it took roughly a decade to achieve. Anthropic, which was founded in 2021, has surpassed that in half the time.

即使在对人工智能的一片狂热之中，Anthropic的发展轨迹依然脱颖而出。就在62天前，OpenAI（其在2022年发布的ChatGPT聊天机器人掀起了人工智能热潮）宣布在一轮融资中募集了1220亿美元，使其估值达到7300亿美元，公司用了大约十年才达成这样一个数字，但被成立于2021年的Anthropic用了不到一半的时间超越。

frenzy /ˈfren.zi/ 表示“疯狂，狂热，狂暴”，英文解释为“(an example of) uncontrolled and excited behaviour or emotion that is sometimes violent”举个🌰：The audience worked/whipped themselves into a frenzy as they waited for her to come on stage. 观众在期待她登上舞台的过程中情绪变得狂热起来。

📍这个词来自古法语的frenesie，表示“疯狂”。近义词：mania（狂热），fury（狂怒）；同根词：frenetic（狂热的）；常用短语：in a frenzy（处于狂热中）

📍work yourself into a frenzy / panic / state etc,表示“使自己变得疯狂/恐慌/紧张等”（to make yourself become very nervous, angry etc）举个🌰：He seemed to be working himself into a rage. 他似乎开始怒火中烧。

作动词，boom /buːm/ 1）表示“增长；迅速发展”，英文解释为“to increase or become successful and produce a lot of money very quickly”举个🌰：The leisure industry is booming. 休闲产业正在蓬勃发展。

2）表示“发出低沉有力的声音；发出隆隆声，轰鸣”，英文解释为“to make a very deep and loud hollow sound”举个🌰：The cannons boomed (out) in the night. 晚上传来隆隆炮声。

作名词，表示“增长，繁荣；增长期，繁荣期”，英文解释为“an increase in something , or a time when something becomes more popular”举个🌰：This year has seen a boom in book sales. 今年图书销售激增。

📍baby boom表示“生育高峰，婴儿潮”，英文解释为“a large increase in the number of babies born among a particular group of people during a particular time”举个🌰：There was a baby boom in the UK and the US after the Second World War. 二战后，英国和美国都出现了一次生育高峰。

surpass /səˈpɑːs/ 表示“超过，优于，胜过”，英文解释为“to do or be better than”举个🌰：His time for the 100 metres surpassed the previous world record by one hundredth of a second. 他以0.01秒的优势打破了100米短跑的前世界纪录。

The company's momentum has gathered steam in recent months as Dario Amodei, Anthropic's chief executive, has spoken out about the potential dangers of A.I. and called for regulation of the technology. That led to a bitter fight with the Pentagon over how A.I. should be used in warfare, among other public imbroglios.

随着Anthropic首席执行官达里奥·阿莫代伊公开谈论人工智能的潜在危险并呼吁对该技术进行监管，该公司的势头在最近几个月里进一步增强。由此引发了一系列公开的纠纷，包括与五角大楼就人工智能应如何在战争中使用展开的激烈争吵。

momentum /məˈmen.təm/ 表示“动量，冲量；冲力；推动力；势头”，英文解释为“the force that keeps an object moving or keeps an event developing after it has started”举个🌰：Once you push it, it keeps going under its own momentum. 一旦你推动了它，它就会在自己的动量作用下持续运动。

imbroglio /ɪmˈbrəʊ.li.əʊ/ 表示“错综复杂的局面，困局”，英文解释为“an unwanted, difficult, and confusing situation, full of trouble and problems”举个🌰：The Soviet Union became anxious to withdraw its soldiers from the Afghan imbroglio. 苏联变得急于想把它的军队从阿富汗困局中撤出来。

Anthropic's rise only adds to its contest with OpenAI and Elon Musk's SpaceX as the private companies race to go public.

Anthropic的崛起只会加剧它与OpenAI以及埃隆·马斯克的SpaceX的竞争，这两家私营公司正在加紧其上市操作。

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