Anthropic becomes the world's top AI start-up with $1tr valuation

EuroNews · 🇫🇷 public France · May 29, 2026 · 611 words · By Doloresz Katanich

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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.

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Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said on Thursday it had raised $65 billion (€55.8bn) in private funding, pushing its valuation to $965bn (€829bn).

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This made the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world's most valuable start-ups as it moves towards a likely Wall Street debut.

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Claim 1: “Pope Leo XIV's call on Monday for robust regulation of AI”

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Claim 2: “a federal court last week dismissed a lawsuit from Musk, an OpenAI co-founder and early donor”

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Claim 3: “its value grew to $1.25 trillion (€1.06 trillion) after the space exploration company merged with Musk's xAI in February.”

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Claim 4: “Anthropic sued in a dispute that is still working its way through two federal courts.”

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Claim 5: “Anthropic also on Thursday launched its newest AI model, called Claude Opus 4.8”

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Anthropic's own announcement and third-party analysis confirm the launch of Claude Opus 4.8 on May 28, 2026.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Our latest model, Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus class of models, with stronger performance across coding, agentic tasks, ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 4, 2026 ... Explore Claude Opus 4.8, Anthropic's most capable generally available model to date, with improvements around long-running agents, coding, ...
https://caylent.com/blog/claude-opus-4-8-what-improved-whats…

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Claim 6: “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic raised $65 billion in private funding”

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Multiple independent web search results (Reuters, etc.) confirm Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC is an American artificial intelligence (AI) company headquartered in San Francisco, California. It has developed a series of large language models (LLMs) named Claude and has a focus on …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Since January 2026, the United States Department of Defense has conflicted with the artificial intelligence company Anthropic over the use of its products for military purposes and mass domestic surve…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic–United_States_Depart…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Claude is a series of large language models developed by American software company Anthropic. Claude was released as an AI-based chatbot in March 2023. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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Claim 7: “Anthropic was formed in 2021 by former OpenAI executives”

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Multiple cross-references from CNBC confirm Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives.

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of executives and researchers who defected from OpenAI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/06/anthropic-spacex-data-center…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of researchers and executives who defected from OpenAI
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/04/15/anthropic-outage-elevated-er…

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cross reference SUPPORTS — Anthropic was founded in 2021 by a group of executives and researchers who defected from OpenAI
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/20/anthropic-revenue-explosive-…

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Claim 8: “overtaking OpenAI's last reported valuation of $730 billion”

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Wikipedia and Bloomberg both report that OpenAI raised $110 billion at a $730 billion valuation in February 2026.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — OpenAI is an American artificial intelligence (AI) research organization headquartered in San Francisco, consisting of OpenAI Group PBC, a for-profit public benefit corporation (PBC), partially contro…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenAI

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — On November 17, 2023, OpenAI's board of directors ousted co-founder and chief executive Sam Altman. In an official post on the company's website, it was stated that "the board no longer has confidence…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Removal_of_Sam_Altman_from_Ope…

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Sora was a text-to-video model and social media app developed by OpenAI. Using artificial intelligence, the model generated short video clips based on prompts, and could also extend existing short vid…
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Claim 9: “San Francisco-based Anthropic said the new round of funding was led by investment firms Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital and Sequoia Capital.”

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Web search results confirm Anthropic is based in San Francisco and that the funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 18, 2026 ... The round is being co-led by Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital, with enterprise demand for ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DYfJ8uAkVTc/

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web search NEUTRAL — May 13, 2026 ... ... led by Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital ... The funding round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital ...
https://www.instagram.com/reel/DYSbjJlCVvC/

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... San Francisco-based Anthropic said the new round of funding was led ... Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, Greenoaks Capital ...
https://www.smdailyjournal.com/business/anthropic-vaults-to-…

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Claim 10: “The sweeping manifesto called “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), Leo’s first encyclical”

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Claim 11: “This made the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot one of the world's most valuable start-ups”

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Wikipedia confirms Anthropic was founded in January 2021 (making it 5 years old by 2026) and developed the Claude chatbot.

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web search NEUTRAL — January 26, 2021 (5 years ago) (2021-01-26). Founders. Dario Amodei ... "Anthropic's Claude AI chatbot now has a desktop app". The Verge. Archived ...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic

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web search NEUTRAL — In March 2024, Claude Opus 3 could complete software tasks that take humans about four minutes to complete. A year later, Claude Sonnet 3.7 managed tasks that ...
https://www.anthropic.com/institute/recursive-self-improveme…

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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 14, 2023 ... Claude is a next-generation AI assistant based on Anthropic's research into training helpful, honest, and harmless AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/introducing-claude

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Claim 12: “Anthropic said it's now making annualised revenue of $47bn (€40.4bn)”

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Multiple sources (The Tech Buzz, Decrypt, Enterprise DNA) report annualized revenue of $47 billion.

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Claim 13: “boosting its valuation to $965 billion”

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Three independent news sources (Flipboard, Nypost, CNBC) confirm the valuation of $965 billion.

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Claim 14: “Trump in February ordered all US agencies to stop using Claude”

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Claim 15: “Anthropic has been in talks with the White House over the cybersecurity capabilities and risks of its most powerful model, Mythos”

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Claim 16: “OpenAI last reported in March it was heading towards a $852bn (€732bn) valuation after a $122bn (€104.8bn) fundraising round.”

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Multiple sources confirm OpenAI closed a $122 billion funding round in March 2026 at a post-money valuation of $852 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 31, 2026 · March 31, 2026 ... Today, we closed our latest funding round with $122 billion in committed capital at a post money valuation of $852 billion.
https://openai.com/index/accelerating-the-next-phase-ai/

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · Anthropic's biggest competitor OpenAI was valued at $852 billion in late March after closing a record-breaking $122 billion funding round.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-va…

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web search NEUTRAL — 4 days ago · This number officially surpasses the $852 billion valuation OpenAI reached in March. Chief Executive Dario Amodei founded Anthropic after ...
https://www.facebook.com/techcrunch/posts/chatgpt-maker-open…

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Claim 17: “Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk”

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Claim 18: “SpaceX was valued at $800 billion (€680 billion) last year”

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Multiple recent reports and IPO filings indicate SpaceX was valued at $800 billion.

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web search NEUTRAL — 1 day ago ... SpaceX hits an $800 billion valuation in the latest funding round SpaceX, the space exploration company founded by Elon Musk, has just ...
https://www.facebook.com/Reuters/posts/breaking-spacex-price…

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web search NEUTRAL — 7 hours ago ... SpaceX raised $75 billion on Thursday in the largest IPO ever after offering more than 555 million shares at $135 a piece, valuing the ...
https://fortune.com/2026/06/12/where-does-musk-live-spacex-s…

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web search NEUTRAL — 5 hours ago ... SpaceX's IPO filings show $18.7 billion in 2025 revenue but a net loss of $4.9 billion. With Morningstar pegging fair value as low as $800 ...
https://www.wionews.com/business-economy/spacex-lost-nearly-…

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