Anthropic’s valuation is approaching $1 trillion, surpassing OpenAI after a new increase of $65 billion

Anthropic said Thursday that it had been raised 65 billion dollars In a Series H funding round, the company was valued at $965 billion after the money and underscored the escalating cost of building and operating frontier AI models.

The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital, along with investors including Blackstone, Fidelity, Lightspeed Venture Partners and Temasek.

“Earlier this month, our run-rate revenue exceeded $47 billion,” Anthropic said books on

The company said the funding will support safety and explainability research while expanding the computing infrastructure required to train and operate increasingly powerful AI models. Meanwhile, investors said the funding reflects growing demand for Anthropic’s Claude AI models among companies.

“Claude’s latest advances have led to widespread adoption among the world’s most demanding organizations,” Brad Gerstner, founder and CEO of Altimeter Capital, said in a statement. “This momentum positions Anthropic to lead the next phase of AI innovation.”

Anthropic’s $965 billion valuation now surpasses the last revealed valuation of its main rival. In March, rival AI developer OpenAI announced an $852 billion valuation following a $122 billion funding round, saying demand for ChatGPT, enterprise AI tools and computing power is accelerating around the world.

This news comes after many partnerships and investments from Amazon, Google, Broadcomand SpaceX,respectively, with Anthropic aiming to expand the computing power needed to train and run CLOUD.

The funding announcement also comes amid ongoing… runner With the Trump administration, after Pentagon officials demanded that AI contractors allow their models to be used for “any lawful use,” including military applications.

In February, Anthropic, which has already secured a $200 million contract with the Department of Defense, to reject To remove safeguards preventing CLOUD from being used for mass domestic surveillance or fully autonomous lethal weapons. The company is also facing concerns from cybersecurity experts that it… Claude Mythos This model can facilitate the implementation of advanced cyberattacks.

Despite these concerns, Anthropic said demand for Cloud continues to rise among companies and enterprise customers around the world.

“Claude is increasingly indispensable to our growing global customer community, and we are working tirelessly to make tools like Claude Code and Cowork even more useful, powerful, and more adaptable to their needs,” said Krishna Rao, CFO of Anthropic. “This funding will help us meet the historic demand we are seeing, stay at the frontiers of research, and bring Claude to more places where the work happens.”

News of Anthropic’s nearly $1 trillion valuation also comes on the same day the company fired Claude Opus 4.8the latest version of the pioneering Cloud Mythos model, said that the controversial cybersecurity-focused Cloud Mythos model could become public. available Within weeks the company is working to expand warranties around the system.