Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B in a funding round that would value it at up to $950B (Mike Isaac/New York Times)
Anthropic is in advanced talks to raise $30–50B at a $950B valuation, a figure that would make it one of the most valuable private companies in history and signal continued mega-investment in frontier AI labs.
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<p><a href="https://www.techmeme.com/260512/p58#a260512p58" title="Techmeme permalink"><img height="12" src="http://www.techmeme.com/img/pml.png" style="border: none; padding: 0; margin: 0;" width="11" /></a> Mike Isaac / <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/">New York Times</a>:<br />
<span style="font-size: 1.3em;"><b><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/12/technology/anthropic-funding-950-billion-valuation.html">Sources: Anthropic is in talks to raise between $30B and $50B in a funding round that would value it at up to $950B</a></b></span> — The start-up, which recently released a powerful A.I. model called Mythos and is separately battling with the Pentagon, was previously valued at $380 billion.</p>
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