Anthropic is in active discussions to raise up to $50 billion at a pre-money valuation of $900 billion, which would surpass OpenAI's March valuation of $852 billion post-money. According to sources reported by The Financial Times, the proposed round would push the Claude developer past OpenAI as the most valuable private AI company globally. The funding round has not been finalized, with a board decision expected this month and the round potentially closing within two months. Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners are among the investors in active discussions, with CFO Krishna Rao having already met with prospective backers. Some existing shareholders have requested new allocations even though a formal process has not yet launched.
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $45 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025, representing a fivefold increase in roughly five months. As reported by The Financial Times, this growth has been driven largely by Claude Code and enterprise adoption, with the company's revenue milestone of $30 billion driven largely by Claude Code and its Cowork platform, with over 1,000 enterprise customers each spending more than $1 million annually. The company has also secured an additional $5 billion investment from Amazon in April, bringing its total potential commitment from Amazon to $25 billion. This dramatic revenue growth supports the company's ambitious valuation targets and positions it as a major player in the AI infrastructure market.
Anthropic has secured a significant compute partnership with Elon Musk's SpaceX, signing a deal to use all compute capacity at SpaceX's Colossus 1 data center. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, the Claude maker announced this development on Wednesday, securing access to more than 220,000 NVIDIA GPUs within the month. The agreement immediately expands what Anthropic can serve to Claude Pro and Claude Max subscribers, with Claude Opus API rate limits raised significantly and Claude Code's five-hour rate limits doubled for Pro, Max, Team and Enterprise plans, all effective Wednesday. This partnership comes just weeks before SpaceX's planned IPO, as the Musk-led firm filed confidentially with the SEC on April 1 for an IPO targeting a $1.75 trillion to $2 trillion valuation, with the public S-1 expected by late May and the roadshow set for the week of June 8.
Anthropic has announced the launch of a new AI services company through a joint venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs. According to reports from The Wall Street Journal, the San Francisco-based AI startup made the announcement on Monday, establishing a new organization specifically designed to bring Claude AI to enterprises. The venture is valued at approximately $1.5 billion, with Anthropic, Blackstone and Hellman & Friedman each committing around $300 million as founding investors, while Goldman Sachs is also participating as a founding partner with a $150 million contribution. The initiative is supported by a broader group of investors, including Apollo Global Management, General Atlantic, GIC, Leonard Green & Partners and Sequoia Capital. As reported by Moneycontrol, the new company will work with mid-sized companies across sectors including healthcare, manufacturing, financial services, retail, real estate, and infrastructure to integrate Claude into their core business operations.
A potential IPO is under discussion as early as October 2026, with the company's tokenized pre-IPO shares on Jupiter's Prestocks venue already implying a $1.2 trillion valuation, above OpenAI's secondary market mark of roughly $880 billion. As reported by crypto.news, this spread between private round pricing and on-chain secondary pricing signals aggressive front-running by crypto-native investors ahead of any public listing. The company's infrastructure buildout supports its international expansion to meet data residency requirements in regulated industries, with Anthropic having previously secured an up to 5 gigawatt agreement with Amazon that includes nearly 1 gigawatt of new capacity by year-end, a 5 gigawatt deal with Google and Broadcom that comes online in 2027, and a Microsoft-NVIDIA strategic partnership covering $30 billion of Azure capacity.
