Big-money rush into Anthropic

- Reports say Google is preparing to invest up to $40 billion in Anthropic while Amazon has separately pledged about $25 billion, a potential combined infusion into the startup. (the-decoder.com) - Secondary‑market marks put Anthropic’s implied valuation near $1 trillion, reportedly surpassing OpenAI’s implied $880 billion on some exchanges, a striking private‑market signal. (pulse2.com) - The move highlights accelerating concentration of frontier model funding and infrastructure around a tiny set of labs and platform backers, with broad implications for access to compute and APIs. (the-decoder.com)