Abu Dhabi Firm and 20 Other Investors Acquire $884 Million Anthropic Stake From FTX

The cryptocurrency exchange FTX is making a strategic move by selling the majority of its stake in the AI company Anthropic for a whopping $884 million. It seems that most of this purchase will be secured by investors located in Abu Dhabi.

It is anticipated that ATIC Third International Investment Company LLC, a company affiliated with Mubadala, the United Arab Emirates’ sovereign wealth fund, will purchase around $500 million worth of FTX’s Anthropic holdings. This disclosure was made public by recent court documents submitted to the U.S. Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware.

Diverse Consortium to Acquire Stakes

Apart from Mubadala’s investment, a group that includes Jane Street, several funds administered by Fidelity Management and Research, venture capital firm HOF Capital, and twenty other organizations are in the process of acquiring shares in Anthropic.

The original $500 million investment made by FTX in Anthropic in 2021 caused some controversy, but it was eclipsed by the bankruptcy procedures that followed due to allegations of fraud. But Anthropic’s journey took an unexpected turn when generative AI advances caused its value to soar.

With the business emerging as a rival to industry heavyweights like OpenAI, FTX’s choice to divest from Anthropic in the midst of a financial reorganization was a well-thought-out strategic move.

FTX officials are cautiously optimistic that creditors will get their money back in full. The stage appears to be prepared for potential stability and recovery with declared financial reserves of more than $6.4 billion and the sale of Anthropic, a valuable asset in FTX’s portfolio.

Anthropic management rejected the Saudi investments because of concerns about national security, despite earlier rumors of interest from buyers in Saudi Arabia.