Anthropic raises $65B at near-$1T valuation in landmark AI…

Anthropic, the safety-focused AI lab behind the Claude model family, has closed a $65 billion funding round that values the company at approximately $965 billion — putting it within striking distance of a trillion-dollar valuation and making it one of the most valuable private companies in history.

The raise cements Anthropic's position as the primary challenger to OpenAI in the frontier AI race, and signals that institutional capital continues to treat leading AI labs as category-defining infrastructure bets rather than speculative technology plays.

At near-$1T, the valuation compresses the gap between private AI labs and the public tech giants that have historically dominated compute and model deployment.