PANews reported on October 9 that according to CoinDesk, prosecutors hope to prohibit Sam Bankman-Fried’s defense team from raising Anthropic AI’s recent fundraising activities in court, saying that any argument that FTX creditors may recover funds is irrelevant to the charges he faces. FTX held $500 million worth of shares in Anthropic last year, and the company’s bankruptcy trustee has not yet sold these shares.

The DOJ claims that the $500 million investment in Anthropic in 2022 came from customer funds. “Evidence regarding the current value of defendants’ investments may only be used to support an argument that FTX customers and/or other victims will ultimately receive full compensation, which the court has recognized is an impermissible purpose,” the filing said.

Previously, Anthropic was seeking to raise at least $2 billion in new funds after Amazon invested $1.25 billion in OpenAI's main competitor. The report said that with the new funds, the company's valuation could climb to between $20 billion and $30 billion. Lawyers said that Anthropic's new round of financing may allow FTX creditors to receive full compensation.