It isn’t quite David defeating Goliath, but Anthropic just did something few would have thought possible a few years ago.
The company is now the most valuable AI start-up in the world, surpassing OpenAI with its latest funding round. The owner of the Claude chatbot just closed its Series H round, valuing the company at $965 billion. Anthropic raised $65 billion from investors, including Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix, the top memory chip companies, and venture capital firms like Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, and Sequoia.
The news marks the latest step in a blistering hot run for Anthropic, whose valuation has now more than doubled from the $380 billion it stood at in February. Anthropic has also upended the software sector as its new Claude products and plug-ins compete directly with existing enterprise software products, showing how AI disruption in software could quickly become a reality.
Anthropic also unveiled its latest model in the funding announcement, Claude Opus 4.8,…
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