Overview
- Anthropic is in talks to raise as much as $50 billion at a roughly $900 billion pre-money valuation, according to reporting that cites people familiar with the process.
- Sources say the company’s annualized revenue run rate has topped $45 billion, up from about $9 billion at the end of 2025, driven by enterprise use of Claude Code and related tools.
- The prospective round is described as possibly the last before a public listing, with a board decision expected in May and some reports pointing to a potential IPO as early as October 2026.
- Anthropic has sued the U.S. government over a Pentagon designation that CFO Krishna Rao says could cut 2026 revenue by multiple billions of dollars.
- To deepen sales and compute access, Anthropic launched a new AI services venture with Blackstone, Hellman & Friedman, and Goldman Sachs, and Amazon added $5 billion to lift its potential commitment to $25 billion.