Anthropic raised $65 billion in a Series H funding round. The investment lifts Anthropic's valuation to $965 billion.
TechCrunch reported on May 28 that the fundraising is likely to be Anthropic's last financing before an IPO.
The round was co-led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, Capital Group, Coatue and D1 Capital Partners. Institutional investors including Baillie Gifford, Blackstone, Brookfield, D.E. Shaw Ventures, DST Global and Fidelity Management & Research also participated.
Strategic infrastructure partners including Samsung, SK Hynix and Micron also joined the investment. Of the total amount raised, $15 billion was previously committed by hyperscalers. Of that, $5 billion was funding Amazon agreed to invest in April.
Anthropic plans to use the funds to advance safety and interpretability research, expand computing to meet rising demand for Claude, and broaden products and partnerships.
Anthropic also released Claude Opus 4.8 on the same day. The company said Opus 4.8 has improved agentic tasks, advanced coding and self-correction capabilities.
Anthropic is also reported to be planning a broader release of Mythos-class models that it had previously made available only on a limited basis due to safety concerns.
Chi-gyu Hwang
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