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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Why it matters

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

Common ground

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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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 18 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “Anthropic was formed in 2021 by former OpenAI executives”

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Wikipedia and multiple CNBC reports confirm Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Daniela Amodei (born 1987) is an American entrepreneur and the president of Anthropic, an artificial intelligence (AI) company known for its Claude series of large language models. She co-founded Anth…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniela_Amodei

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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 — 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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Claim 2: “SpaceX was valued at $800 billion (€680 billion) last year”

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Multiple sources, including a LinkedIn report citing PitchBook and other web searches, confirm SpaceX was valued at $800 billion in late 2025/last year.

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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX was valued at $800 billion as of a secondary share sale in December 2025, and xAI was valued at $230 billion as of their most recent funding round in January, according to PitchBook, a research…
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/daniloghernandez_elon-musk-is…

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web search NEUTRAL — SpaceX, the rocket and satellite maker run by Elon Musk, told employees on Friday that it would buy insider shares in a deal that would value it at around $800 billion, and said that it was preparing …
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/12/12/technology/elon-musk-spac…

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web search NEUTRAL — The transaction values SpaceX at US$1 trillion and xAI at $250 billion, according to a person familiar with the matter.Last year, he folded social media platform X into xAI through a share swap, givin…
https://www.dublinnews.com/news/278846830/musk-folds-xai-int…

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Claim 3: “Trump in February ordered all US agencies to stop using Claude”

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Claim 4: “Anthropic said it's now making annualised revenue of $47bn (€40.4bn)”

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The annualized revenue of $47 billion is reported by EuroNews and corroborated by a web search result from KTLA.

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

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The March 2026 fundraising round of $122 billion and the resulting $852 billion valuation for OpenAI are reported by EuroNews, CNBC, and a direct OpenAI announcement.

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

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web search NEUTRAL — 3 days ago ... Anthropic has overtaken OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup after raising $65 billion in a new funding round that pushed its ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZXh4mVlScq/

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

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Multiple independent sources, including EuroNews and several web search results from May 2026, confirm Anthropic raised $65 billion in Series H funding.

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Claim 7: “overtaking OpenAI's last reported valuation of $730 billion”

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Multiple web search results and EuroNews confirm that Anthropic's valuation surpassed OpenAI's last reported valuation of $730 billion.

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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The American artificial intelligence (AI) organization OpenAI has released a variety of products and applications since its founding in 2015.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Products_and_applications_of_O…

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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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sora_(text-to-video_model)

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Claim 8: “Defence Secretary Pete Hegseth declared the company a supply chain risk”

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Claim 9: “This made the five-year-old maker of the Claude chatbot”

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Wikipedia and web search confirm Anthropic creates the Claude chatbot. The 'five-year-old' claim is consistent with its 2021 founding date relative to the 2026 reporting date.

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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. It is also used in AI-assisted software developm…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_(language_model)

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic said it's now making annualised revenue of $47 billion from selling its technology to people and organisations using Claude to write code and do other work and personal tasks on their behalf…
https://gulfnews.com/technology/anthropic-vaults-to-a-965-bi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Talk with Claude, an AI assistant from Anthropic.
https://claude.ai/

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Claim 10: “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 11: “a federal court last week dismissed a lawsuit from Musk, an OpenAI co-founder and early donor”

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Claim 12: “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 13: “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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The San Francisco location and the specific lead investors (Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia) are confirmed by EuroNews and multiple web search results.

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web search NEUTRAL — May 30, 2026 · Anthropic announced a $65 billion Series H financing round. The latest round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia ...
https://www.tradingview.com/news/invezz:9f5792289094b:0-the-…

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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · San Francisco-based Anthropic said the new round of funding was led by investment firms Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer Investment Group, ...
https://ktla.com/ap-business/ap-anthropic-vaults-to-a-965-bi…

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web search NEUTRAL — Jun 1, 2026 · Anthropic raised $65 billion in a single Series H this week. That one check represents 97% of all capital in the top 10 rounds. Altimeter ...
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/965-billion-line-how-anthropi…

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Claim 14: “Pope Leo XIV's call on Monday for robust regulation of AI”

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Claim 15: “Anthropic sued in a dispute that is still working its way through two federal courts.”

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Claim 16: “Anthropic also on Thursday launched its newest AI model, called Claude Opus 4.8”

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The launch of Claude Opus 4.8 is confirmed by EuroNews, Anthropic's own announcement, and TechCrunch.

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web search NEUTRAL — On CursorBench, Claude Opus 4.8 exceeds prior Opus models across every effort level. Tool calling is meaningfully more efficient, using fewer steps for the same intelligence, and it carries end-to-end…
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8

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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8 Thursday, an upgrade to its flagship AI model with better coding and knowledge work skills, all for the same price as its prior version.
https://www.axios.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-opus-release-myth…

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web search NEUTRAL — Together with the new model, Anthropic launched a feature called Dynamic Workflows, which will be available in research preview. The system is designed to help larger models like Opus manage complex t…
https://techcrunch.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-releases-opus-4-…

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Claim 17: “The sweeping manifesto called “Magnifica Humanitas” (Magnificent Humanity), Leo’s first encyclical”

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Claim 18: “boosting its valuation to $965 billion”

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The valuation of $965 billion is reported by EuroNews, Flipboard, NYPost, and CNBC.

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