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Anthropic valued at close to a trillion dollars in new funding round

France24 · 🇫🇷 public France · · 466 words
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Anthropic valued at close to a trillion dollars in new funding round 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…

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Anthropic valued at close to a trillion dollars in new funding round 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…

Why it matters

Artificial intelligence company Anthropic said Thursday it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round that values the Claude maker at $965 billion, more than its arch-rival OpenAI, the maker of ChatGPT.

Common ground

The latest fundraising round confirms Anthropic's place as one of the most significant players in AI, with the start-up led by Dario Amodei having drawn fans for its coding powers and state-of-the-art models.

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Claim 1: “Elon Musk's SpaceX, which absorbed his AI company, xAI, in February”
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Multiple independent sources (Phys, web search) confirm that SpaceX absorbed xAI in February 2026.
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web search NEUTRAL — Mar 31, 2026 ... SpaceX merged with xAI at a valuation of $1.25 trillion. Here's what that means for the upcoming IPO, and whether investors should get in on the ...
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/stocks/articles/spacex-abs…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 3, 2026 ... Elon Musk's rocket maker SpaceX has acquired his artificial intelligence startup xAI in a deal that will value the company at $1.25 trillion, ...
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/02/03/musk-xai-spacex-biggest-merg…
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web search NEUTRAL — Feb 2, 2026 ... SpaceX has acquired xAI to form the most ambitious, vertically-integrated innovation engine on (and off) Earth, with AI, rockets, space-based ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/SpaceXLounge/comments/1qu8wym/space…
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Claim 2: “Claude is now the first frontier AI model available across all three of the world's largest cloud platforms – Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure”
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Claim 3: “Anthropic's round was led by major Silicon Valley venture capitalists Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital”
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CNBC and multiple web search results confirm the round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Anthropic has raised $65 billion in Series H funding led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... ... money valuation, led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. This Series H financing also includes many of the ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/krishna-rao-193b613_anthropic…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 31, 2026 ... ... funding round, pushing its valuation to nearly $965 billion. The round was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital
https://www.instagram.com/p/DZCIZ1izURy/
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Claim 4: “Anthropic... having sued the Defence Department after it designated the company a supply chain risk”
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Claim 5: “placing it ahead of rival OpenAI”
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Cross-references from CNBC confirm that the financing puts Anthropic's valuation above that of OpenAI.
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cross reference SUPPORTS — The financing puts its valuation above that of rival AI lab OpenAI.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/28/anthropic-open-ai-startup-va…
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cross reference SUPPORTS — There is also a contract asking whether Anthropic will be valued higher than OpenAI at any point this year.
https://www.cnbc.com/2026/05/19/polymarket-launches-private-…
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Claim 6: “Semiconductor firms Micron, Samsung and SK hynix... also participated as strategic infrastructure partners”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm that Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix participated as strategic infrastructure partners.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 ... Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix just became strategic infrastructure partners in Anthropic's $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion ...
https://www.reddit.com/r/MU_Stock/comments/1tqvgc2/micron_sa…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 31, 2026 ... Samsung Electronics, SK hynix, and Micron participated in the round as strategic infrastructure partners. Anthropic said the technology of ...
https://x.com/mzuhair123/status/2061053975638725038
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... Joining them are strategic infrastructure partners—Micron, Samsung, and SK hynix—whose technologies play a critical role in the world's ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
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Claim 7: “valuing the Claude maker (founded by former OpenAI employees and led by Dario Amodei) at $965 billion”
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Multiple independent sources, including WSJ and other web results, confirm the $965 billion valuation following the funding round.
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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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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 8: “Artificial intelligence company Anthropic announced on Thursday that it had raised $65 billion in a new funding round”
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Multiple independent web search results from May 2026 confirm that Anthropic announced on a Thursday that it raised $65 billion in Series H funding.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — An AI boom is a period of rapid growth in the field of artificial intelligence. The most recent boom happened in the early 2020s before seeing increased acceleration and media coverage. Examples of th…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_boom
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Super Bowl LX was an American football game played to determine the champion of the National Football League (NFL) for the 2025 season. The National Football Conference (NFC) champion Seattle Seahawks…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — The following is a list of events of the year 2026 in the United States, as well as predicted and scheduled events that have not yet occurred. July 4, 2026, will be the 250th anniversary of the signin…
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Claim 9: “founded by former OpenAI employees and led by Dario Amodei”
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Wikipedia explicitly states that Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former members of OpenAI, including Dario Amodei.
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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 — 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 — Dario Amodei (born 1983) is an American artificial intelligence (AI) researcher and entrepreneur. In 2021, he and his sister Daniela Amodei co-founded Anthropic, the company behind the large language …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dario_Amodei
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Claim 10: “Mythos is Anthropic's powerful, next-generation AI model with unprecedented cybersecurity capabilities”
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Claim 11: “It also included $15 billion in previously committed investments from cloud giants, including $5 billion from Amazon”
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Multiple independent web search results confirm the inclusion of $15 billion in committed investments, including $5 billion from Amazon.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... It also includes $15 billion of previously committed investments from hyperscalers, including $5 billion from Amazon. Joining them are ...
https://www.anthropic.com/news/series-h
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web search NEUTRAL — Apr 20, 2026 ... The funding includes $15 billion in previously committed investments from hyperscalers, including $5 billion from Amazon. Anthropic also ...
https://www.instagram.com/p/DXX7N8jAsFN/
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 ... ... investment round. The round comprises $15 billion of previously committed investments from hyperscalers, including $5 billion from Amazon.
https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/anthropic-secures-965…
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Claim 12: “SpaceX... could see shares begin trading as early as June 12, targeting a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion”
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Independent reports from CNBC and Reuters confirm SpaceX is targeting an IPO on June 12 with a valuation of approximately $1.75 trillion.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Space Exploration Technologies Corporation, doing business as SpaceX, is a private American spaceflight, telecommunications, and artificial intelligence company headquartered at the Starbase developme…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — As of May 27, 2026, the SpaceX Starship has been launched 12 times, with 7 successes and 5 failures. SpaceX has developed Starship with the intention of lowering launch costs using economies of scale.…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starshield is a business unit of SpaceX creating purpose-built low-Earth-orbit (LEO) satellites designed to provide new military space capabilities to U.S. and allied governments. Starshield was adapt…
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Claim 13: “This has led Anthropic to restrict its access to security partners rather than releasing it to the public”
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Claim 14: “OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in March”
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Multiple independent cross-references from CNBC and NYPost confirm OpenAI was valued at $852 billion in March after a $122 billion funding round.
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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.
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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…
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Codex is an AI coding agent developed by OpenAI for software engineering tasks such as writing code and fixing bugs, released in April 2025 as Codex CLI. Codex is available through ChatGPT's web app, …
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