Anthropic in talks to raise $30 billion at a $900 billion valuation
Anthropic is in talks to raise $30 billion at a $900+ billion valuation. On paper, the company would surpass OpenAI — its previous round was just three months a
Anthropic, creator of Claude, is in talks to raise at least $30 billion at a valuation above $900 billion. This would exceed OpenAI's paper value, and all of this less than three months after the previous record round, when the company raised $5 billion at a $20 billion valuation.
Scale and growth rate
A valuation above $900 billion makes Anthropic the most expensive private AI company in the world. In three months, the company's value has grown approximately 45-fold — from an initial $20 billion to $900+ billion. At first glance this looks insane, but it reflects the essence of investment logic in AI: investors are willing to pay a huge premium for a company that truly competes with OpenAI at the technological level, rather than just following the trend. For context: OpenAI at its last valuation was above $80 billion. Right now, figures in the AI industry are simply on a different scale. Anthropic has proved that it can scale quickly and not only in size, but in quality too.
Why investors believe in Anthropic
Claude consistently ranks in the top 3 of models alongside GPT-5.5 and Gemini. But this is not just numbers in benchmarks. The company stands out for its approach to AI safety and long-term accountability, which attracts serious investors, including state sovereign funds. Anthropic doesn't copy someone else's path, but creates its own. Moreover, the company has shown that it can release products that people actually use. Not just an API, but Claude.ai with a growing audience. This trust translates into funding.
What does $30 billion mean in reality
$30 billion is not just a large number, it's fuel for 18–36 months of maximum development. The money will go toward:
- Purchasing millions of NVIDIA H100s and future specialized AI chips
- Funding research in AI safety and long-term accountability
- Expanding Claude's context window from the current 200K tokens to even more
- Launching its own cloud infrastructure for independence from AWS and Google Cloud
- Attracting a second wave of top engineers from academia and competitors
Each of these points is a step in the race. In AI, computing speed and model quality is all that matters.
The context of the race
This news comes at a time when the industry is accelerating on all fronts. OpenAI has released Operator (a browser agent), Google is scaling up Gemini, and startups like xAI and others are growing. Investors need horses, and Anthropic is one of the main candidates for the role of second player behind OpenAI. A $30 billion round is not just capital, it's a vote of the investment community.
What this means next
The race for AGI is accelerating and becoming more expensive. Investors are betting not on a ChatGPT clone, but on a real alternative, a company that can lead. Anthropic proves that large models are not a bubble, but the basis of infrastructure for the coming years. If the round closes, it will be a signal: AI is not a trend, but the future, and it's worth investing billions in it.