en.Wedoany.com Reported - U.S. large model company Anthropic is in talks with investors for a new funding round, planning to raise at least $30 billion at a pre-money valuation exceeding $900 billion, with the deal potentially closing as early as the end of this month. According to Bloomberg, discussions are still ongoing, the agreement has not been finalized, and a formal term sheet has yet to be signed.

Anthropic was co-founded in 2021 by former OpenAI research executives, siblings Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. Headquartered in San Francisco, California, its core product is the Claude series of large language models. If this round is completed at a $900 billion pre-money valuation, Anthropic will surpass competitor OpenAI to become the world's most valuable AI startup. OpenAI announced on March 31, 2026, the completion of a $122 billion private placement, with a post-money valuation of approximately $852 billion.

Anthropic experienced intensive fundraising activity and a sharp rise in valuation throughout 2026. In February 2026, the company completed its Series G round, raising $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation. If this round is successfully completed at a $900 billion valuation, it means the company's valuation has increased by approximately 137% in less than four months. Prior to this, Anthropic completed a $13 billion Series F round in September 2025, at a valuation of $183 billion—the climb from $183 billion to $900 billion took only about eight months.

Revenue growth is the core variable underpinning the sustained upward trajectory of its valuation. Anthropic disclosed in an earnings call that its annualized revenue surged from $9 billion at the end of 2025 to $44 billion in May 2026, a nearly fivefold increase. The Claude Code product rapidly penetrated the market after launch, with approximately 4% of public code commits on GitHub generated by the tool. The company projects full-year 2026 revenue to reach $18 billion, with the annualized revenue run rate exceeding $30 billion by the end of 2026.

Anthropic has initially built a comprehensive commercial product matrix around the Claude model. Beyond free and subscription services for general users, its core revenue relies on enterprise-grade advanced API calls, the Bedrock platform deeply integrated with Amazon AWS, and developer tools like Claude Code. Regarding capital backing, Google invested $2 billion in Anthropic in 2023, and Amazon invested $4 billion in 2024. To date, the cumulative capital injection from Google and Amazon into Anthropic has reached $65 billion. In the first quarter of 2026, Anthropic's annualized revenue and product usage grew 80-fold year-over-year. CEO Dario Amodei previously stated in public meetings that the company is acquiring more computing resources "as fast as possible" to meet the surging inference demand for the Claude model.

Compared to OpenAI's projected losses of up to $14 billion in the first quarter of 2026, Anthropic's financial discipline is more recognized by some investors. According to a recent roadshow presentation sent to investors, Anthropic is expected to achieve positive cash flow in 2027. The company's current top priority remains rapidly expanding its revenue scale and market share to cope with increasingly fierce industry competition and product homogenization pressure, while steadily improving cloud infrastructure utilization efficiency amidst high-speed growth.

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