Anthropic has officially overtaken OpenAI as the world’s most valuable artificial intelligence company. The San Francisco-based firm announced a $65 billion fundraising round that values ​​it at $900 billion, far higher than OpenAI’s most recent valuation of $730 billion, representing one of the fastest valuation increases in technology history.
Just three months ago, Anthropic was valued at $380 billion. The new round, led by GreenOaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, nearly tripled that figure.
Anthropic’s revenue run rate surpassed $47 billion this month, indicating that enterprise adoption has accelerated dramatically since the company improved its AI coding capabilities in November.
In addition to announcing the funding, Anthropic introduced the Cloud Opus 4.8 model, which is said to be significantly better at generating computer code than its predecessors.
The model is exceptionally good at vibcoding the AI-written code process through natural language commands, making software development easier for users who have no technical background.
While companies compete to create efficient and reliable systems to automate the software development process, the company that comes up with a more capable product will be able to claim the largest share of the enterprise market.
Anthropic has recently faced controversy regarding the use of AI in warfare, launching the Mythos model to detect latent software vulnerabilities, and even advising Pope Leo XIV when preparing his papal encyclical on the subject of AI disrupting human life.
Chief Financial Officer Krishna Rao outlined the investment saying only that “This funding will help us meet the historic demand we are experiencing, continue to be on the research frontier, and bring the cloud to more places where work happens.”
