Anthropic Hits $14B ARR, $380B Valuation

- The Series G funding round was led by Singapore's sovereign wealth fund GIC and investment firm Coatue. Other significant investors included Sequoia Capital, Blackstone, and affiliated funds of BlackRock. - Anthropic was founded in 2021 by seven former OpenAI employees, including siblings Dario Amodei (CEO) and Daniela Amodei (President). They left OpenAI due to differing views on AI safety and the company's commercial direction. - The company operates as a public benefit corporation, which legally allows it to prioritize its mission of ensuring transformative AI benefits humanity over maximizing shareholder profits. A "Long-Term Benefit Trust" holds special shares giving it the power to elect board members to uphold this mission. - A significant driver of its revenue is the enterprise adoption of its AI models, with the number of customers spending over $100,000 annually on its Claude AI suite growing sevenfold in the past year. More than 500 organizations now pay over $1 million annually. - Anthropic's core product is a family of large language models named Claude. The latest version, Claude Opus 4.6, was released in February 2026 and is designed for complex coding, agent-driven workflows, and enterprise tasks. - Major technology companies have made significant investments in Anthropic, including Amazon with a total of $8 billion and Google with $2 billion. As part of these deals, Anthropic utilizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) and Google Cloud's TPUs for computing power. - The company distinguishes itself through a focus on AI safety, utilizing a framework called "Constitutional AI" to align its models with human values and make them helpful and harmless without extensive human feedback. - The recent funding is intended to fuel frontier research, product development, and infrastructure expansion, as Anthropic's Claude is the only major AI model available on all three of the largest cloud platforms: AWS, Google Cloud, and Microsoft Azure.