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Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by BobbyTables2 »

dyauspitr wrote: post #180
maxnevermind wrote: post #103

What is this, Series for ants? It barely covers Andrej's sign-on bonus.

To put this into perspective, India has built 4000+ miles of new railway lines over the last five years including a Shinkansen style bullet train. That’s more than all the railway lines in the country of Switzerland for about $12 billion. The money being thrown around here is mind blowing.

Indeed! And the returns from such an investment in infrastructure will likely be profound.

I feel AI is a bit different, as in there is a spectrum ranging from “utterly stupid” (early ChatGPT), “very helpful” (kinda now), “SkyNet 2.0” (what good are humans!).

As algorithms and technology improve, AI will be both cheaper and more capable. Companies like Anthrophic wouldn’t be the vaulted celebrities as they are today. At that point, I’m not sure what value much of society can provide…

At one time, blacksmiths had a valued place in general society. Today, not so much…

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by dyauspitr »

BobbyTables2 wrote: post #231
dyauspitr wrote: post #180

Earlier quoted context omitted.

To put this into perspective, India has built 4000+ miles of new railway lines over the last five years including a Shinkansen style bullet train. That’s more than all the railway lines in the country of Switzerland for about $12 billion. The money being thrown around here is mind blowing.

Indeed! And the returns from such an investment in infrastructure will likely be profound. I feel AI is a bit different, as in there is a spectrum ranging from “utterly stupid” (early ChatGPT), “very helpful” (kinda now), “SkyNet 2.0” (what good are humans!). As algorithms and technology improve, AI will be both cheaper and more capable. Companies like Anthrophic wouldn’t be the vaulted celebrities as they are today.…

Well, if everyone is out of a job, the government is going to have to do something so I’m not too worried about it. If I had to be an optimist about it, I would say that this might be the perfect catalyst to build out a lot of renewable energy (for data centers) and maybe actually implement UBI.

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by jeremyjh »

ratakh wrote: post #198
simonw wrote: post #165

> Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. OK, so their self-reported run-rate revenue hit $47bn in early May. For comparison: Apr 6th 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-c... - "Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate revenue has now surpas…

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Why is the number of software engineers a limiting factor? I think what matters is the number of people who want custom software. Or cheap customer service. Or cheap financial analysis. Or cheap...

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by HDBaseT »

onychomys wrote: post #96
gruez wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Anyone in finance should know that excel doesn't run out of letters (for columns) either. It just rolls over to AA, AB, etc.

They eventually stop, Excel has a max column size of 16,384. Not sure what letter combo that would be (ZZZZZZZZZZ or something?), but it does eventually halt. https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/office/excel-specificati...

Not even close, column 16,384 ends at XFD. [0].

[0] - https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/answers/questions/4888467/...

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by VirusNewbie »

ratakh wrote: post #198
simonw wrote: post #165

> Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. OK, so their self-reported run-rate revenue hit $47bn in early May. For comparison: Apr 6th 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-c... - "Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate revenue has now surpas…

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that seems pretty reasonable. If it makes software engineers 10% more productive that's a bargain.

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by fsuts »

photonair wrote: post #205
ratakh wrote: post #198

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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If these are fake revenues, I would think that the sophisticated investors would see through that? Or everyone is just in some ponzi scheme raising valuation and letting the last investors hold the bag or eventually pass it on to retail investors buying at the peak?

Yes

Everyone is in the same bag, get it IPO’d and then let the retail investors and tracker funds worry long term

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by Zafira »

mgfist wrote: post #193
simonw wrote: post #165

> Since our Series G in February, adoption has continued to grow across global enterprise customers, and our run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. OK, so their self-reported run-rate revenue hit $47bn in early May. For comparison: Apr 6th 2026: https://www.anthropic.com/news/google-broadcom-partnership-c... - "Demand from Claude customers has accelerated in 2026. Our run-rate revenue has now surpas…

Pretty unfathomable growth. I'm pretty sure I listened to Dario saying something along the lines of keeping Anthropic on track for 10x ARR growth (in December) and thinking that that was a bonkers idea for a $9B run-rate company, and now it's looking like that might be an underestimate ...

Personally, I’m just exhausted. They are not obligated to be truthful here, so the entire thing is interpreted based on vibes. If you are an AI booster, this is proof that the demand is there; if you aren’t, you’re baffled at where these numbers are coming from.

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by singingtoday »

shreezus wrote: post #174
8f2ab37a-ed6c wrote: post #53

Say you join Anthropic now as an employee. What are the chances of your equity appreciating in value? I don't think we have any historical precedents to this.

Anthropic is one of the few companies that will likely hit an infinite valuation if they succeed in their mission.

Jokes aside, I do see potential of them hitting multiple trillions of valuation.

Re: Anthropic raises $65B in Series H funding at $965B post-money valuation

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Post by fsuts »

cmiles8 wrote: post #12

Probably the bigger headline here is that they’ve blown past OpenAI in revenue and valuation, with OpenAI looking increasingly shaky and vulnerable.

OpenAI were perhaps hampered by the Microsoft deal that was just renegotiated allowing them to go onto AWs etc?
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