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Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money.

Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

And why would anyone participate in their IPOs? They would be crazily overvalued, like Figma or worse.

I really wonder is there even enough dump money from them to sell the stock they hold. Not to mention even raising any new capital... Is there really enough bag holders that will run after these stock with large enough piles of money?

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

If your thesis was correct, why wouldn't some of those "outflows" go to GOOG or NVDA?

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Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#54

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Pay attention to the outflow of tech investment in the stock market. That money is going to move into OpenAI and Anthropic IPOs. The valuations will be as big you are thinking because the market believes these companies will represent an entire basket of startups.

If your thesis was correct, why wouldn't some of those "outflows" go to GOOG or NVDA?

They would. You can see how resilient GOOG has been during this recent draw-down, and how much growth it has had even as AI sells off.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#56

Oh dang, no wonder they’re auto coding so much garbage in public (crap c compiler, crap browser, crap salesforce).

The timing of the Claude Code guerilla marketing campaign that seems to have started around new years is now making much more sense.

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#57

How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money. Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

how does any startup beat an incumbent?

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#58

How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money. Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

Google fucks up 90% of their products, why do you think Gemini is in the 10%?

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

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post #22

Kind of amusing that there is basically no mention of their original mission at all here.

What was their original mission? My sense is that startup mission statements are ~meaningless. Builders try to build great things that lots of other people will find valuable.

Friendly AI

Re: Anthropic raises $30B in Series G funding at $380B post-money valuation

#60

How is Anthropic, OpenAI and xAi going to compete against the likes of Google that can spend $200 billion a year? It’s an impossible war and all these investors are throwing their money into a bottomless insatiable pit of money. Until the funding stops for one reason or another and then everyone loses all their money at once like a star that collapses into a black hole singularity in a femtosecond.

Google's only focus isn't on Gemini. Anthropic is do-or-die
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