Anthropic Weighs $50B Funding at $900B Valuation, Eclipsing OpenAI
$900B: Surpassing OpenAI's Valuation
Anthropic is weighing a new funding round of approximately $50 billion at a valuation between $850 billion and $900 billion, Bloomberg and TechCrunch reported on April 29–30. If completed, it would eclipse the $852 billion post-money valuation OpenAI achieved in its record $122 billion round earlier this year.
Revenue Tripled in Four Months
Anthropic's annualized revenue run rate climbed from roughly $9 billion at end-2025 to approximately $30 billion by end of Q1 2026 — more than a 3× increase in four months. Enterprise customers now account for 80% of revenue, with more than 1,000 businesses spending over $1 million per year. Investors were reportedly given a 48-hour window to submit allocation commitments.
IPO on the Horizon
A board decision is expected in May, with an IPO floated as early as October 2026. The capital would help Anthropic finance its long-term cloud infrastructure commitments — including the newly reported $200 billion Google Cloud deal — and continued chip procurement for frontier model training.
Source: TechCrunch · CNBC
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