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With nearly $1 trillion valuation, Anthropic dethrones OpenAI as most valuable AI company

Nypost · · 573 words · By Marc Vartabedian
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With nearly $1 trillion valuation, Anthropic dethrones OpenAI as most valuable AI company See more of our coverage in your search results.

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With nearly $1 trillion valuation, Anthropic dethrones OpenAI as most valuable AI company See more of our coverage in your search results.

Why it matters

Add The New York Post on GoogleAnthropic’s valuation reached a whopping $965 billion in its latest financing round — surpassing rival OpenAI to become the most valuable artificial intelligence startup.

Common ground

Anthropic, long seen as an upstart seeking to challenge OpenAI’s initial dominance in the field, said Thursday it had secured $65 billion in Series H funding — in spite of clashes with the White House earlier this year.

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eFinder analyzed this article and checked 14 claims against available evidence, cross-references, web search, and Wikipedia. Here is what the fact-checking layer found.

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Claim 1: “The company logged a $47 billion revenue run rate on Thursday, up from $10 billion in revenue last year.”
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Three independent web search results confirm the $47 billion revenue run rate and the previous year's revenue of approximately $10 billion.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · This is their revenue run rate. $47 billion dollars. That is ... We, their revenue just last year was around $10 billion dollars. So ...
https://www.facebook.com/cnbc/videos/anthropic-is-now-the-mo…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 29, 2026 · Anthropic's $47 billion revenue run rate is roughly 35 percent more than OpenAI's. This is certainly not the most ideal news to drop for OpenAI
https://mashable.com/tech/anthropic-overtakes-openai-ai-comp…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · Anthropic also reported a $47 billion revenue run rate on Thursday. That's up from $30 billion run rate earlier this year, and $10 billion in ...
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/sirojboboev_breaking-anthropi…
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Claim 2: “the company recently went through a bruising legal fight with Musk, whose suit accusing OpenAI of betraying its founding missions was tossed out in Oakland, Calif.”
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Claim 3: “Private stock marketplace Hiive told The Post in April that the price for Anthropic shares has surged 211% to roughly $900 over the previous three months”
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Claim 4: “the company launched the Claude Mythos model”
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The launch of the Claude Mythos model is confirmed by CNBC, Wikipedia, and other web search results.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic's Mythos exposed decades-old CVEs. Mitigate now with compensating controls. Project Glasswing changed the game. Use existing EDR, NGFW, WAF for instant mitigation.
https://www.bing.com/aclick?ld=e8L6LqH4cdBuEwiHM9jlsiDjVUCUy…
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Mythos is a large language model developed by Anthropic to find software vulnerabilities. Anthropic has not released the model to the public, citing safety and misuse concerns. [1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claude_Mythos
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web search NEUTRAL — 2 days ago · Claude Mythos 5 is the latest update for Mythos Preview, seeing gains in cybersecurity, biology, and healthcare benchmarks. Given its capabilities, Mythos 5 is currently only available to…
https://www.anthropic.com/claude/mythos
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Claim 5: “Anthropic’s valuation reached a whopping $965 billion in its latest financing round”
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Multiple independent sources (Reuters, WSJ, and a financial report) confirm that Anthropic reached a valuation of $965 billion in its latest financing round.
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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 6: “SpaceX recently filed paperwork to launch its IPO around June 12, boldly aiming for a $1.5 trillion valuation.”
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CNBC, Forbes, and Bloomberg (via web search) all report on SpaceX's IPO filing and the target valuation of approximately $1.5 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…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Starship is a spacecraft and second stage under development by American aerospace company SpaceX. Stacked atop its booster, Super Heavy, the pair compose SpaceX's super heavy-lift space vehicle, also …
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Super Heavy is the reusable first stage of the SpaceX Starship super heavy-lift launch vehicle, which it composes in combination with the Starship second stage. As a part of SpaceX's Mars colonization…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX_Super_Heavy
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Claim 7: “Anthropic sued to fight the designation”
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Claim 8: “the Pentagon labelled a “supply-chain risk” in March — barring it from working with the War Department and prohibiting contractors from using the company’s AI models in their work with the Pentagon.”
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No evidence was found in the provided search results or cross-references to support the claim that the Pentagon labeled Anthropic a supply-chain risk in March.
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Claim 9: “OpenAI was valued at $852 billion in March after closing a monster $122 billion funding round.”
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Two independent cross-references from CNBC confirm OpenAI's valuation of $852 billion following a $122 billion funding round in March.
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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, …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_(AI_agent)
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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 — 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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Claim 10: “Anthropic released a new model called Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday.”
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CNBC and Anthropic's own official announcements (via web search) confirm the release of Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday.
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · Claude Opus 4.8, is an upgrade to our Opus. It's available today for the same price. Claude Opus 4.8 is available everywhere today.
https://www.anthropic.com/news/claude-opus-4-8
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude Opus 4.8 is Anthropic's most capable Opus-tier model. a lower 1,024-token minimum cacheable prompt length. , and high-autonomy work
https://platform.claude.com/docs/en/about-claude/models/what…
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web search NEUTRAL — May 28, 2026 · Opus 4.8 is available for testing on openmark.ai 4.8 is way down in the list. Even cost efficiency wise it didn't hit the mark.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Anthropic/comments/1tq9g68/introduc…
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Claim 11: “San Francisco-based Anthropic, led by CEO Dario Amodei”
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Wikipedia directly confirms that Anthropic is headquartered in San Francisco and was co-founded/led by Dario Amodei.
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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 — 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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wikipedia NEUTRAL — Samuel Harris Altman (born April 22, 1985) is an American entrepreneur and investor who has been the chief executive officer (CEO) of the artificial intelligence company OpenAI since 2019. Altman atte…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sam_Altman
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Claim 12: “Anthropic co-founder Christopher Olah joined Pope Leo at the Vatican for the pontiff’s unveiling of a high-profile document on preserving human dignity in the age of AI.”
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While evidence for Anthropic and Christopher Olah exists, none of the provided search results or Wikipedia entries mention an event with Pope Leo at the Vatican.
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic PBC[8] 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 …
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic
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web search NEUTRAL — Anthropic is an AI safety and research company that's working to build reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems.
https://www.anthropic.com/
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web search NEUTRAL — Claude is Anthropic's AI, built for problem solvers. Tackle complex challenges, analyze data, write code, and think through your hardest work.
https://claude.com/product/overview
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Claim 13: “Anthropic’s latest round of financing was led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks and Sequoia Capital.”
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Claim 14: “Anthropic... secured $65 billion in Series H funding”
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Multiple independent sources confirm that Anthropic secured $65 billion in Series H funding.
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wikipedia NEUTRAL — In philosophy of science and cosmology, the anthropic principle (also known as the observation selection effect) is the proposition that the range of possible observations that could be made about the…
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthropic_principle
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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 — 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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