Anthropic, the maker of Claude and last publicly valued at a now-quaint $380 billion, is raising a new round of funding-the company's reportedly looking to rake in as much as $50 billion at a valuation in the $900 billion ballpark. And talking to brokers, investors, and founders about it, they all had the same, clear message: This is not normal.
The Milan office is the commercial operationalisation of an Italy strategy the company has been seeding politically through Rome. Anthropic will open a Milan office to anchor its expanding Italian commercial footprint. The Milan launch extends a European push the company formalised six months ago with Paris and Munich openings, and adds Italy as the latest national market in a region that has become the AI lab's fastest-growing geography.
Anthropic has acquired Stainless, the company that generates all official SDKs for the Claude API. Founded in 2022, Stainless also produces CLI tools and MCP servers. With this acquisition, Anthropic aims to further expand the connectivity of Claude agents with external data and tools. Stainless converts API specifications into SDKs in languages including TypeScript, Python, Go, Java, and Kotlin. Hundreds of companies use Stainless to generate their own SDKs, command-line interfaces, and MCP servers, according to Anthropic.
Anthropic is teaming up with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs to form a new AI services company targeting private equity-backed businesses, with a total investment of $1.5 billion.
Anthropic is targeting a valuation of about $900 billion. However, given the soaring demand from investors seeking a stake in the company, the final valuation may well exceed that figure.
"If you're going fishing, you've got to put a worm on the hook. What's my other option? Not being in it?" said Storm Duncan, highlighting the lengths he is willing to go to acquire Anthropic shares.
