Anthropic raises $65B at $965B valuation, tops OpenAI!

Anthropic, the AI safety company behind the Claude model family, has closed a funding round that values it at $965 billion — surpassing OpenAI to claim the title of the world's most valuable AI startup. The raise brings total capital secured to $65 billion, a figure that would have seemed implausible for a five-year-old research lab just two years ago.

The milestone redraws the competitive map at the frontier of large language model development. Anthropic has positioned Claude as the enterprise-grade alternative to OpenAI's GPT line, winning significant deployment contracts across legal, medical, and software development verticals. A near-trillion-dollar valuation signals that institutional investors see that positioning as durable, not cyclical.

For the broader AI sector, the number sets a new private-market benchmark.