Anthropic secured a $65 billion Series H funding round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, potentially its final private round before public markets. The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue, and D1 Capital Partners, with additional institutional participation from Baillie Gifford, Blackstone, Brookfield, D.E. Shaw Ventures, DST Global, and Fidelity Management & Research. Strategic infrastructure partners including Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron joined. $15 billion came from previously committed hyperscaler investments, including $5 billion from Amazon. Funds will support safety and interpretability research, expand compute for Claude demand, and scale products and partnerships. The funding coincided with the release of Claude Opus 4.8, emphasizing agentic tasks, coding, and honesty with self-correction, alongside plans for broader model launches and growth toward first operating profit.
"Anthropic has snagged another $65 billion in funding at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's last private round before debuting on the public markets."
"Anthropic plans to use the new funds to "advance our safety and interpretability research, expand compute to meet growing demand for Claude, and scale the products and partnerships our customers rely on.""
"The round comes the same day that Anthropic released its new Claude Opus 4.8 model, which touts better capabilities in agentic tasks, advanced coding, and focus on honesty and self-correction. The AI startup is also reportedly planning to more widely launch models that are on par with its powerful cybersecurity model Mythos, which it has only released in limited fashion due to potential safety concerns."
"The company has seen increased growth since its last funding round, particularly among enterprise customers that rely on Claude Code. The company said its run rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month, and The Wall Street Journal recently reported that the startup expects a 130% revenue surge to bring it to its first operating profit"
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