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The Economic Times
The Economic Times
National
Piyush Shukla

Who truly leads the AI industry now? Anthropic’s $965 billion valuation and Claude Opus 4.8 launch reignite the battle for AI supremacy beyond OpenAI’s early lead

Anthropic has stunned the artificial intelligence industry after securing $65 billion in fresh funding. The Series H round pushed the Anthropic valuation to an extraordinary $965 billion post-money valuation. The funding instantly positioned Anthropic ahead of several global technology giants and intensified the competition with OpenAI, Google, and other leading AI developers. Investors including Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital backed the deal, signaling enormous confidence in Anthropic’s long-term growth and dominance in generative artificial intelligence markets.

The latest Anthropic funding round arrives during an aggressive expansion phase across the global AI sector. Enterprise demand for advanced AI assistants, coding models, and large language models continues accelerating rapidly. Anthropic said the newly raised capital will strengthen safety research, improve interpretability systems, expand cloud infrastructure, and scale enterprise partnerships worldwide.

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