Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic has secured $100 million in funding from SK Telecom (SKT), a leading player in the South Korean telecommunications sector.

“By combining our Korean language-based LLM with Anthropic’s strong AI capabilities, we expect to create synergy and gain leadership in the AI ecosystem together with our global telco partners,” said the firm’s CEO Ryu Young-sang in a press release.

The investment is intended to foster the development of a multilingual large language model (LLM) tailored for global telecommunications firms. The funding also comes hot on the heels of a Series C round in which the firm raised a cool $450 million.

SKT was involved in that round too, via its venture capital arm SK Telecom Venture Capital (SKTVC). Google also invested in Anthropic in a previous funding round.

The partnership between Anthropic and SKT will focus on specifically on creating a multilingual LLM to support languages such as English, Korean, German, Japanese, Arabic, and Spanish.

“SKT has incredible ambitions to use AI to transform the telco

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