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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 pembrook »

baal80spam wrote: post #75
cmiles8 wrote: post #66

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The acceleration rate has been extraordinary… they went from mostly unknown outside AI circles to the number one player almost overnight. If that’s not “blown past” I don’t know what is.

Do ordinary people really know what Anthropic is?

Ironically their tussle with the US federal government is what made them a household name [1]

There's no better way to create awareness of a brand than to get it featured in the most popular reality TV show globally at the moment: "Thing Trump Did: Season 2."

[1] Proof: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?date=today%205-y&q=... (see the massive spike in January of this year)

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

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Post by manquer »

Aurornis wrote: post #63
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.

Their valuations differ by about 13%. That's close enough that I wouldn't call it "blown past". Things change fast in this space. Anthropic had a big boost from having the premier coding model for a while, but GPT-5.5 has closed that gap at a time when a lot of Anthropic customers are looking for cheaper alternatives. Anthropic is coming off of a recent change to their enterprise billing that substantially changed th…

> but GPT-5.5 has closed that gap at a time when a lot of Anthropic customers are looking for cheaper alternatives.

GPT-5.5 is a bit more expensive than Opus ? Current list prices

  | Model      | Input   | Output   |
  | GPT-5.5    | $5/MTok | $30/MTok |
  | Opus 4.8/7 | $5/MTok | $25/MTok |
Deepseek perhaps would be the top threat on a pure price/performance metric for either of them. It doesn't look like OAI is going for the value play .

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

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Post by karmasimida »

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 isn't shaky or vulnerable, this market will need at least 2 players.

I see most of the surge here comes FOMO AI spending which will have to be dialed down later half of the year, otherwise those companies will have to layoff to fund their AI bill, which is harmful to their business.

Anthropic grabs its bag at the peak, but feast is over.

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

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Post by Scoundreller »

misiti3780 wrote: post #18
tomwheeler wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Effectively infinite. Databricks is a good example. They're still private after 13 years and closed a Series L round last year. Stripe is similar. Having been through an IPO before, it was good for employee liquidity, but bad for the culture and long-term success of the company.

so how do stripe employees get liquidity? can anyone sell their secondary shares?

Bankruptcy court?

FTX bought 8% of Anthropic for $500m in 2021.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/josipamajic/2026/03/18/ftx-owne...

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

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Post by solenoid0937 »

fontain wrote: post #74
solenoid0937 wrote: post #60

Earlier quoted context omitted.

> at some point companies will realize tokenmaxxing is not good Why? Have we figured out the limits of what agents can do? > OpenAI is much less exposed to tokenmaxxing I don't think this is true, from my own experience & chatting with my acquaintances.

Tokenmaxxing is the practice of measuring employees by how many tokens they use, encouraging employees to burn tokens needlessly, it is unrelated to what agents can do. If a task can be completed with 100k tokens but employees are considered better performers if they complete it with 500k tokens instead… that’s unsustainable and cannot possibly benefit Anthropic in the long term. At some point, Amazon and Uber and so…

Oh. I thought tokenmaxxing was just removing token limits

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

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Post by toasty228 »

GenerWork wrote: post #4

As someone who knows admittedly knows nothing about startup funding rounds, how many more rounds of funding can they do before an IPO? Is it effectively infinite?

Once they reach series Z does it go back to A or do we get a new format like AA, AB ?

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

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Post by CuriouslyC »

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.

Anthropic is riding a hype wave as a result of brilliant marketing. OpenAI has the better products, higher reliability and better community relations. I don't expect the situation to continue.

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

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Post by hereme888 »

CuriouslyC wrote: post #109
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.

Anthropic is riding a hype wave as a result of brilliant marketing. OpenAI has the better products, higher reliability and better community relations. I don't expect the situation to continue.

I agree
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