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Guardian Tech5/31/2026Business4 min readUnited Kingdom

Anthropic Raises $65bn, Valued at $965bn, Surpassing OpenAI as Most Valuable AI Startup

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Anthropic, creator of Claude, raises $65bn in funding, valuing the company at $965bn, surpassing OpenAI.
The deal reflects its growth driven by enterprise adoption of its coding assistants and positions it as a safety-focused leader in the AI industry.

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Anthropic, the AI firm behind the Claude chatbot, announced on Thursday it had raised $65bn in funding to value the company at $965bn post-money... (rest of the article preserved with paragraph breaks)

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