Anthropic Targets $900 Billion Valuation to Fuel AI Infrastructure Expansion

Anthropic is currently in discussions with investors to secure new funding at a valuation of $900 billion, a move that would potentially position it as the most valuable private AI company globally. This proposed figure represents a steep increase from the company's February valuation of $380 billion. The funding push comes as Anthropic intensifies its competition with OpenAI, which was valued at $852 billion in late March following a record-breaking $122 billion funding round supported by Nvidia, SoftBank, and Amazon. The capital raise is largely motivated by the immense infrastructure requirements of 'Claude Mythos Preview,' a specialized model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities. This model has already sparked high-profile interest from bank executives and members of the Trump administration, necessitating significant investment in compute power to maintain and deploy the system. To support this scaling, Anthropic has secured strategic backing from cloud giants. Amazon has committed up to $25 billion and 5 gigawatts of compute capacity, while Google plans to invest up to $40 billion, providing an additional 5 gigawatts of capacity through a partnership with Broadcom starting next year. The company's financial momentum is compounding, with annualized revenue reaching $30 billion, a significant jump from the approximately $10 billion generated last year. This growth has been further bolstered by the release of its AI coding assistant, Claude Code, and the latest general-purpose model, Claude Opus 4.7.