Anthropic joins Frontier carbon removal coalition in $915 million funding push

The AI company becomes the first pure AI startup to join Frontier, bringing the coalition's total commitment to $1.8 billion

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Frontier, the tech-company-backed carbon removal coalition, announced $915 million in new funding commitments on Wednesday, adding Anthropic and Salesforce $CRM as participants and bringing its total pledges to $1.8 billion.

Anthropic is the first AI startup to join Frontier, according to TechCrunch. The coalition was founded in 2022 by Stripe, Google $GOOGL, and Shopify $SHOP, among others, to accelerate the development of carbon removal technologies by committing to purchase credits in advance. Other current participants include H&M Group and........

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