Anthropic Becomes World’s Most Valuable AI Startup at $…
Anthropic Becomes World’s Most Valuable AI Startup at $…
Publish Date: 2026-05-28 20:33:00
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- Anthropic secured a massive $65 billion Series H funding round, valuing the company at $965 billion post-money.
- The round included previously committed investments from hyperscalers, notably $5 billion from Amazon.
- Anthropic’s valuation surpasses $900 billion, potentially making it the most valuable AI startup, surpassing rival OpenAI.
- The company’s valuation has surged from $380 billion in February’s Series G round ($30 billion raised) and $183 billion in September’s Series F round ($13 billion raised).
- Anthropic plans to use the new funds to advance safety and interpretability research, expand compute resources, and scale its products and partnerships.
- Since the Series G funding, Anthropic has seen substantial adoption of its Claude model and its run-rate revenue has crossed $47 billion.
- The latest funding round was spearheaded by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
- Anthropic announced a first operating profit in Q2, contrary to previous financial guidance that lacked a full-year profitable forecast until 2028.
- The company unveiled Claude Opus 4.8, which shows improvements in coding, agentic skills, reasoning, and practical knowledge work tasks, surpassing its predecessor Opus 4.7.
