Anthropic raises $65 billion, valued at $965 billion, surpassing OpenAI

AI firms OpenAI and Anthropic target historic IPOs over $60 Billion.

Anthropic overtakes OpenAI as the worlds most valuable startup after latest funding round

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Anthropic is nearing a $1 trillion valuation, topping rival OpenAI and making it the most valuable artificial intelligence startup, as the two competitors head toward their initial public offerings. The San Francisco-based AI company announced a new round of $65 billion Series H financing on Thursday, bringing it to a $965 billion valuation. The latest round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, and included $15 billion of prior commitments, $5 billion of which came from Amazon. In just the last few months, Anthropic has nearly tripled its worth from $380 billion in February, CNBC reported. Meanwhile, rival OpenAI, which was considered the heavyweight in the fight to dominate AI—and was the more talked-about company just a year ago—now trails behind, valued at $852 billion (which includes $122 billion funding it raised in March). Anthropic’s dizzying rise is in large part due to its AI assistant Claude Code coding software. On Thursday, the company released Claude Opus 4.8, its latest version, and confirmed plans to roll out Claude Mythos models with advanced cybersecurity capability, which had been delayed due to security risks. So far, it’s only been available to select group of companies. And Anthropic keeps innovating. As Fast Company reported, earlier this month, the company launched Claude for Small Business, a new package of agentic workflows that includes skills to automate small business tasks like payroll, marketing, invoicing, contracts, and content strategy. The sky-high valuations and lighting speed at which these companies are raising money speaks to the absolute feeding frenzy that is the AI boom. But will the average investor benefit from these upcoming IPOs? “At the potential prices that have been reported, it would be very difficult for an investor to come out ahead in a three-year period,” economist Jay Ritter, an IPO expert at the University of Florida, told The New York Times. “They may be great as companies but when you buy shares in them, you should pay attention to their price.”

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the AI company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. Bloomberg's AI reporter Shirin Ghaffary joins Tim Stenovec on "Bloomberg Tech." (Source: Bloomberg)

Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. The funding, announced Thursday, was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Each of the lead investors put in more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia declined to comment. The other three firms did not respond to a request for comment. For more, we speak with Mandeep Singh, Global Head of Tech Research for Bloomberg Intelligence. (Source: Bloomberg)

The artificial intelligence giant was just valued at $900 billion, surpassing OpenAI. Here are the numbers behind its rise — and headwinds it faces.

As Claude adoption accelerates and growth momentum builds, the tech giant continues to inch closer to a $1 trillion valuation.

Anthropic's near-trillion-dollar valuation puts it ahead of OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March. Both companies could go public as early as this year.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding, boosting its valuation to $965 billion and overtaking OpenAI's last reported valuation of $730 billion as the two firms compete for dominance in the AI sector.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the AI company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. (Source: Bloomberg)

Anthropic's rise came by doubling down on delivering generative AI to enterprise clients rather than general users, the path initially chosen by archrival OpenAI

Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time.The funding, announced Thursday, was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. Each of the lead investors put in more than $2 billion, according to people familiar with the matter. Sequoia declined to comment. The other three firms did not respond to a request for comment.Alphabet Inc.’s Google contributed several billion dollars to the round as part of a previously announced commitment to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic over time, according to people familiar with the matter. Amazon.com Inc. invested $5 billion in the round, also as part of a prior commitment, Anthropic said in a blog post.Google declined to comment. Micron Technology Inc., Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. also contributed an undisclosed amount, helping to push the round well above Anthropic’s initial $30 billion target.The large round came together in a matter of weeks, a sign of strong investor demand for the Claude maker. In late April, Anthropic had been weighing whether to pursue new financing at a more than $900 billion valuation after receiving several inbound proposals, Bloomberg News has reported. The artificial intelligence startup then kicked off advanced discussions earlier this month.Founded in 2021 by a group of former OpenAI employees, Anthropic has since emerged as a leader in the AI sector. Anthropic has developed a series of AI tools aimed at overhauling the way businesses handle tasks from coding to cybersecurity. Anthropic and OpenAI are both expected to go public as soon as this fall, Bloomberg News has reported. Anthropic is still expected to proceed with an IPO on that timeline after the latest funding, one person said.Anthropic declined to comment.Anthropic expects to post $10.9 billion in revenue for the second quarter, more than doubling from the prior three-month period as demand surges for its AI software, Bloomberg News has reported. The company is also on pace for its first profitable quarter.The company has told investors that its annualized run rate revenue will surpass $50 billion by the end of next month, people familiar with the matter said. Anthropic’s run rate, a metric that projects full-year revenue based on sales from a shorter period, was $4 billion in July of last year.OpenAI was most recently valued at $852 billion in a funding round completed in March. The company is expected to confidentially file draft paperwork to go public in the coming days or weeks.

Claude maker raises $65bn from investors ahead of expected initial public offering.

Alphabet Inc.'s Google contributed several billion dollars to the round as part of a previously announced commitment to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic over time

Anthropic becomes most valuable AI startup beats OpenAI with near T valuation

The results of the latest fundraising round confirm Anthropic's place as one of the most significant players in artificial intelligence.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round that valued the company at $965 billion post-money, according to a Thursday (May 28) press release. The round includes previously committed investments of $15 billion from hyperscalers, including $5 billion from Amazon, according to the release. It was reported in April that a valuation […] The post Anthropic Becomes World’s Most Valuable AI Startup at $965 Billion appeared first on PYMNTS.com.

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced on Thursday that it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round, valuing the Claude maker (founded by former OpenAI employees and led by Dario Amodei) at $965 billion and placing it ahead of rival OpenAI.

The latest fundraising round confirms Anthropic's place as one of the most significant players in AI.

Anthropic Raises $65BN At $965 Billion Valuation, Surpassing OpenAI Amid an unprecedented valuation battle between ChatGPT and Anthropic raging in the private markets ahead of their respective IPOs in a few months, Bloomberg reported that shortly after releasing its latest Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic raised $65BN in a funding round that will nearly triple the start-up’s valuation and see it surpass arch-rival OpenAI as the most valuable AI lab. The Claude chatbot maker was valued at $900bn, not including the new investment, as part of the fundraising led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital. The round comes just three months after Anthropic raised $30bn in a deal valuing it at $350bn as the popularity of its tools for software developers and workplace customers has propelled extraordinary growth and given it an edge over OpenAI, which was most recently valued at $852bn. “Claude’s latest advancements have driven large-scale adoption among the world’s most demanding organisations. This momentum positions Anthropic to lead the next phase of AI innovation,” said Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital. While Anthropic’s run-rate revenue, a metric prefered by start-ups which estimates annual revenues based on short-term performance, crossed $47bn this month, some have expressed skepticism that the number is legitimate, with many suggesting that double counting and even extapolating of outlier is the reason behind the surge. If true (and things in the press should be taken with grains of salt), this one customer was reported as $6b of ARR for OAI/Anthropic ($500m*12) the month this happened. For reference, that is larger than (checks notes) yup, Snowflake's run-rate revenue as of Q1. 😳 pic.twitter.com/Dj67m6rUmi — Jared Sleeper (@JaredSleeper) May 28, 2026 The more than fivefold increase since the start of the year is unprecedented for a start-up its size. It's also most likely bogus, but that will be for the company's new public shareholders to figure out in a few months when the company goes public at an even more ludicrous valuation.  According to the FT, backers are looking to build their stakes in Anthropic ahead of an initial public offering which could come as soon as this year, as OpenAI and SpaceX also race towards public listings. Together, the three companies are expected to have a valuation of ~$3 trillion and will drain an unprecedented amount of liquidity from the market, likely sparking the next market drawdown.  The funding caps an extraordinary period for Anthropic, led by former ChatGPT employee Dario Amodei, when the announcement of its new AI tools has rattled whole sectors of the stock market from wealth managers to cyber security groups. The power of its Mythos model, which it released to a limited group of trusted partners because of its advanced cyber security capabilities, has prompted concern from governments and financial regulators around the world. On Thursday, Anthropic said it was making progress towards a wider release of Mythos “in the coming weeks”. It also released the latest version of its Claude model, Opus 4.8, which the company said was more “honest” and “more likely to flag uncertainties about its work and less likely to make unsupported claims”. The company is also embroiled in a legal fight with the Department of Defense over the military use of its technology, a battle that has scarcely dented Anthropic’s financial progress. The new funding includes investments from the three leading makers of memory chips: Micron, Samsung and SK Hynix. Anthropic is an end customer for their hardware, which has increasingly been in short supply because of huge demand from AI data centres. Their participation follows other circular agreements by both OpenAI and Anthropic with cloud providers and other chipmakers, such as Nvidia. These circle-jerking arrangements between customers, suppliers and investors - reminiscent of the circular deals that burst the dot com bubble - in the AI industry have added to concerns about a bubble in the sector. Anthropic initially targeted a $30bn raise from financial institutions. The company exceeded that total in part thanks to the participation of infrastructure partners, the same infrastructure partners that will now see their money returned to them for compute purchases. This added to $15bn in previously committed funding from Big Tech “hyperscalers”, including $5bn from Amazon, to fill out the $65bn raising. The new capital will go towards Anthropic’s effort to procure enough computing power to meet rising demand for its tools. It has struggled with capacity issues in recent months. It recently struck a multibillion-dollar deal with Elon Musk’s SpaceX to use one of its data centres, as well as long-term agreements with Google, Broadcom and Amazon potentially totalling hundreds of billions of dollars. “This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,” said Krishna Rao, chief financial officer of Anthropic. Other venture capital and fund managers who invested include Baillie Gifford, Blackstone and Brookfield and state-backed investors including Abu Dhabi’s MGX and Singapore’s Temasek.  Tyler Durden Thu, 05/28/2026 - 18:31

Anthropic is now the artificial intelligence king in Silicon Valley – unseating rival OpenAI as the most valuable AI company after a new whopping $965 billion valuation.  The AI giant said Thursday it inked a $65 billion Series H financing at the new valuation which is nearly triple from its value in February when it...

Claude maker Anthropic said annualized revenue surpassed $47 billion as it expands cloud and compute partnerships.

Founded by former OpenAI employees, including CEO Amodei, Anthropic has a special focus on AI safety even as it rushes out new products in order to remain in the AI race. The post Anthropic now worth $965bn, tops OpenAI as most valuable AI startup appeared first on Vanguard News.

Anthropic raked in $65 billion from investors at a $965 billion valuation in its latest funding round, overtaking OpenAI’s most recent valuation as the two AI startups race to go public. The company announced the additional financing Thursday, with investment firms Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital leading the round. It marks a massive...

Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time. Ed Ludlow reports on "Bloomberg The Close." (Source: Bloomberg)

Claude’s parent company’s $65bn in latest funding round underscores vast sums of money still flowing into industryAnthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, announced on Thursday it had raised $65bn in funding to value the company at $965bn post-money. The move makes Anthropic the world’s most valuable AI startup, eclipsing its competitor OpenAI.The deal marks an exceedingly successful period of growth for Anthropic, which was once considered to be a smaller player in the global AI arms race. The widespread adoption of its products by large enterprise businesses, especially following its release of powerful coding assistants late last year, has turned it into a dominant player in the industry. Continue reading...

New valuation after series H funding round puts Anthropic ahead of rival OpenAI

A $65 billion Series H funding round follows a sharp three-month revenue surge for the Claude creator, pushing Anthropic to a fresh $965 billion valuation.

Anthropic surpasses OpenAI with $965B valuation after a $65B fundraise and releases a new Claude Opus 4.8 model, enhancing its AI capabilities.

Anthropic is now the most valuable AI company in Silicon Valley after a new $65 billion funding round.

OpenAI’s valuation reached $730 billion in March following a massive $122 billion funding round.

Anthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.

Anthropic PBC raised $65 billion in a funding round that valued the artificial intelligence company at $965 billion including the new investment, eclipsing rival OpenAI’s value for the first time.