Anthropic recently held early funding talks with Abu Dhabi-based investment firm MGX, barely a month after the OpenAI rival closed one of the largest financing rounds ever for a technology startup. Anthropic Chief Executive Officer Dario Amodei met with representatives from MGX to discuss raising additional capital during a tour of several countries in the Middle East this month, according to multiple familiar with the matter. Among those at the meeting were MGX CEO Ahmed Yahia Al Idrissi, said ...