Anthropic completed a record $65 billion fundraising round that valued the AI safety company at $965 billion post-money, surpassing OpenAI’s private valuation.
The San Francisco-based firm develops the Claude family of large language models with emphasis on alignment and safety research. Institutional investors participated at scale, reflecting conviction in enterprise demand for Claude across coding, analysis, and customer service.
Surpassing OpenAI’s private mark represents a symbolic shift in competitive standing among frontier model developers. Both companies remain private but are widely expected to pursue public listings following SpaceX’s debut.
The valuation also signals that capital continues concentrating in a handful of foundation-model providers despite concerns about monetization timelines and infrastructure costs. Anthropic’s fundraising ranks among the largest private technology deals on record.
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https://www.buildfastwithai.com/blogs/ai-news-today-june-1-2026