Anthropic PBC will pay at least $1.5 billion plus interest to resolve an authors’ copyright lawsuit over the AI company’s downloading of millions of pirated books, one of the largest settlements over artificial intelligence and intellectual property to date.
A request for preliminary approval of the accord, involving one of the fastest-growing AI startups, was filed Friday with a San Francisco federal judge who had set the closely watched case for trial in December.
The settlement is among the first in dozens of copyright lawsuits filed against AI leaders including OpenAI Inc., Meta Platforms Inc