Anthropic raises $30bn led by GIC, Coatue at $380bn valuation

The AI big introduced a income run fee of $14bn – up from $0 three years in the past, and $9bn two months in the past.

Anthropic introduced a $30bn Sequence G funding spherical led by Coatue Administration and Singapore’s GIC at a post-money valuation of $380bn. The increase greater than doubles its valuation from the final spherical it introduced in September.

The Sequence G was co-led by D E Shaw Ventures; Dragoneer; Founders Fund; Iconiq; and the Abu Dhabi-based MGX, an AI funding agency with shut ties to the United Arab Emirates political class. MGX just lately took 15pc possession of TikTok’s US enterprise and funded xAI in a $20bn Sequence E spherical shortly earlier than it was acquired by SpaceX.

A number of different big-name buyers took half within the spherical, together with Accel; Bessemer Enterprise Companions; Black Rock; Constancy Administration and Analysis Firm; Progress Fairness at Goldman Sachs Options; Lightspeed Enterprise Companions; Qatar Funding Authority; and Sequoia Capital, amongst others.

Whereas Anthropic didn’t present particulars on particular person commitments from buyers, Bloomberg reported final month that lead buyers GIC and Coatue will commit round $1.5bn, and Iconiq round $1bn.

The Sequence G additionally contains parts of the beforehand introduced $15bn in commitments from Microsoft and Nvidia, Anthropic mentioned.

The corporate desires to make use of the funds to gas frontier analysis in AI, develop merchandise and develop its infrastructure. Claude is at the moment the one frontier AI mannequin out there on the three largest cloud platforms, Amazon Net Providers, Google Cloud and Microsoft Azure.

The spherical comes because the AI big hit a income run fee of $14bn – up from $0 three years in the past, and round $9bn two months in the past.

Anthropic has established itself because the go-to alternative for enterprise coding in a market plagued by selections starting from OpenAI to Microsoft’s Copilot.

In response to the corporate, the variety of prospects spending greater than $100,000 yearly on Claude has progress seven occasions up to now yr, whereas greater than 500 spend greater than $1m on an annualised foundation.

Claude Code’s income fee alone has grown to greater than $2.5bn, greater than doubling in worth for the reason that starting of the yr. The corporate launched ‘Cowork’ in January, a product solely made by Claude Code, designed to be a less complicated model of its predecessor. The launch garnered typically optimistic reactions from customers.

In the meantime, Claude for Healthcare was launched shortly after rival OpenAI launched its iteration of a privacy-preserving device for medical queries.

“Whether or not it’s entrepreneurs, start-ups, or the world’s largest enterprises, the message from our prospects is similar – Claude is more and more turning into vital to how companies work,” mentioned Krishna Rao, Anthropic’s chief monetary officer.

“This fundraising displays the unbelievable demand we’re seeing from these prospects, and we’ll use this funding to proceed constructing the enterprise-grade merchandise and fashions they’ve come to rely upon.”

The corporate additionally launched its newest AI mannequin, the Opus 4.6, earlier this month. The mannequin, in response to the corporate, can handle classes of real-world work, generate paperwork, spreadsheets and shows.

Synthetic Evaluation testing locations Opus 4.6 on the prime of the chart for operating higher than OpenAI’s GPT 5.2 whereas being cheaper.

OpenAI is reportedly in talks to lift as a lot as $100bn for a $750bn valuation. The corporate is at the moment valued at $500bn. Its income run fee exceeded previous $20bn by the top of 2025.

Each OpenAI and Anthropic mentioned they’re serious about submitting for preliminary public choices (IPO).

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