Anthropic Completes $6.5 Billion Series H Funding, Launches Claude Opus 4.8 Model, and Valuation Approaches $1 Trillion

Artificial intelligence startup Anthropic announced a successful Series H funding round of up to $65 billion, with its post-money valuation surging to $96.5 billion, approaching the trillion-dollar threshold. As the final private funding round before its initial public offering (IPO), this round was led by institutions including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital, and attracted strategic infrastructure partners such as Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron, as well as Amazon's previously committed $5 billion investment. The new funds will be mainly used to advance research on AI safety and explainability, expand computing capacity to meet market demand, and develop the customer product ecosystem.

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On the same day as the funding closing, Anthropic officially launched its new Claude Opus4.8 model. This model excels in agent tasks, advanced coding, integrity, and self-correction. The company also plans to widely launch models with performance comparable to its top-tier cybersecurity model, Mythos. Since the last funding round, Anthropic has experienced rapid growth due to strong demand for Claude Code from enterprise customers. At the beginning of this month, its annualized run rate revenue exceeded $47 billion, and it is expected to see a 130% increase in revenue and achieve its first operating profit.

Currently, the capital arms race in the AI field has entered an intense phase. With OpenAI completing a $12.2 billion funding round at a $85.2 billion valuation in March this year, and SpaceX merging with xAI to seek a $20 billion valuation, Anthropic, thanks to this significant investment, not only solidifies its dominant position in the global top tier of generative AI, but also signals that the intelligent industry driven by large models is accelerating toward a new era of commercial profitability and compliance security.

The Largest Chip Leasing Transaction in History Has Emerged! Apollo Joins Blackstone to Raise $36 Billion to Aggressively Acquire Google TPU for Anthropic

A capital frenzy is sweeping global artificial intelligence infrastructure development. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone Group plan to jointly launch a debt financing of approximately $36 billion, providing financial support to AI unicorn Anthropic through a 'rent-to-own' model. This will become one of the largest private credit transactions in history, accelerating the deployment of top-tier AI infrastructure.

Controversial! The US's Strongest Model Opus 4.8 Is Accused of Being a Distilled Version of a Chinese Open-Source Large Model

The US large model company Anthropic released Claude Opus 4.8, which performed well in multiple rankings, but was exposed to have cognitive confusion issues. Internet users found through API testing that when asking about its identity, the model incorrectly claimed to be Alibaba's Qwen or DeepSeek, among other Chinese open-source large models, drawing attention.

Earn 47 Billion Dollars! Anthropic's Annual Revenue Surges, Claude Enterprise Applications See a Major Breakthrough

Anthropic announced that its annual revenue has exceeded 47 billion dollars, demonstrating the huge potential of generative AI in commercialization. Since the Series B funding round in February, the flagship model Claude has seen a major breakthrough in the enterprise market, driving rapid growth in performance and highlighting the intensifying competition in the AI industry.

Rushing Before Listing! Anthropic Raises $6.5 Billion with a Valuation Close to $1 Trillion

AI company Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H funding round, with a post-investment valuation of $965 billion. Led by Altimeter Capital and Sequoia Capital, with participation from Samsung and others, this is seen as the final private round before IPO. The funds include prior commitments from tech giants like Amazon.....

Beat GPT-5.5! Claude Opus 4.8 Launches, Price Drops by Two-Thirds

Anthropic released its flagship large model Claude Opus 4.8 on May 29th. It maintains the original price while focusing on upgrading intelligent agent programming, complex logical reasoning, and multi-domain knowledge work capabilities. Test feedback shows that the model performs more stably in daily use, with sharper judgment, especially excelling at handling complex multi-step tasks.