According to CoinMeta, Anthropic CEO Amodei met with Ashton Kutcher, a venture capitalist with an acting background, and music agent Guy O'Searcy at Beverly Hills in 2023 to discuss AI security, model development competition, and company vision. After the meeting, Kutcher and O'Searcy decided to participate in the Anthropic initial financing round led by institutions through their respective Sound Ventures. Sources revealed that Sound Ventures has invested a total of $435 million in Anthropic, currently holding about 0.5% of the shares. Based on Anthropic's plan for a $1.4 trillion valuation of IPO, the value of their equity is approximately $7 billion, representing a growth of about 1500% from the investment cost. Notably, Sound Ventures had previously invested in OpenAI, although the venture capital industry generally avoids investing in competitors of existing portfolio companies at that time. O'Searcy stated that the company only proceeded with the investment in Anthropic after obtaining permission from OpenAI CEO Altman.