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Investment giants and sovereign wealth funds are showing a keen interest in acquiring FTX’s shares in Anthropic, an artificial intelligence startup rivaling OpenAI. 
FTX <a href="https://crypto.news/ftx-receives-go-ahead-to-sell-its-stake-in-ai-startup-anthropic/">invested</a> $500 million in San Francisco-based Anthropic three years ago, securing an 8% stake. The value of that stake has since doubled to over $1 billion. 
Class B shares, which lack voting rights, are now being offered based on Anthropic’s most recent valuation of $18.4 billion. 
The funds from selling these shares will be used to <a href="https://twitter.com/sunil_trades/status/1771274519694500290" target="_blank" rel="noopener">reimburse</a> FTX clients. According to reports from <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2024/03/22/anthropic-lining-up-a-new-slate-of-investors-ruled-out-saudi-arabia.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">CNBC</a>, the sale is progressing smoothly and is expected to conclude within the next few weeks. 
Investment bank Perella Weinberg is managing the sale on behalf of FTX. 
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 FTX is looking to sell our 8% stake in Anthropic at the latest valuation of $18.4bn. We didn’t win our objection to the sale despite it being 100% financed by customers We did win that all proceeds should go to FTX customers – need to prove this (although we have exhibits from…— Sunil (FTX Creditor Champion) (@sunil_trades) <a href="https://twitter.com/sunil_trades/status/1771274519694500290?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw" target="_blank" rel="noopener">March 22, 2024</a>
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The sale is also attracting a group of new investors, meaning that prior backers like Amazon, Salesforce and Alphabet are not part of this round. 
<a href="https://crypto.news/ftx-saga-what-happened-to-ftx/">FTX</a> is exploring the sale of its shares through special purpose vehicles (SPVs), facilitating collective investment from various parties. 
Saudi Arabia-based buyers are reportedly interested in acquiring these shares. However, Anthropic executives have revealed to CNBC that Saudi investments are not being considered due to matters of national security.&nbsp; 
<a href="https://crypto.news/ftx-backed-anthropics-ceo-turns-down-openais-merger-proposal/">Anthropic</a> founders Dario and Daniela Amodei have attracted roughly $7 billion in funding. They have the right to challenge any potential investors. However, they are not involved in the current fundraising process, or in the discussions with potential investors in FTX’s stake.&nbsp; 
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