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Anthropic is weighing a fresh funding round at a $900B+ valuation that would leapfrog OpenAI. The company's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, tripling from $9B just months ago.
May 2026 brought two landmark AI funding stories: Anthropic exploring a raise at a $900B+ valuation surpassing OpenAI, and AlphaGo creator David Silver closing a record $1.1B seed round for RL-focused Ineffable Intelligence.
Anthropic is weighing a fresh funding round at a $900B+ valuation that would leapfrog OpenAI. The company's annualized revenue run rate has surpassed $30 billion, tripling from $9B just months ago.
David Silver, the former DeepMind researcher who co-created AlphaGo and AlphaZero, has raised $1.1B at a $5.1B valuation for Ineffable Intelligence to build an AI superlearner that discovers knowledge without human-generated training data.