Anthropic rejected huge bids

Anthropic has turned down investor approaches that would have valued the company at about $800 billion or more, according to Bloomberg. (bloomberg.com) The offers arrived weeks after Anthropic closed a $30 billion Series G round on February 12 at a $380 billion post-money valuation, with a $350 billion pre-money price. Anthropic said that round was led by GIC and Coatue, with D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ and MGX also participating. (anthropic.com) Reuters reported on April 14 that venture firms had made multiple recent offers at valuations as high as $800 billion, more than double Anthropic’s current value, and that the company had not accepted them. The report said the discussions were still preliminary and no deal was certain. (reuters.com) Anthropic is the company behind Claude, a family of artificial intelligence models sold to businesses and developers. On its website, Anthropic says it is a public benefit corporation focused on building artificial intelligence systems while trying to reduce their risks. (anthropic.com) The valuation jump is being driven by revenue growth as much as investor appetite. Bloomberg reported on April 6 that Anthropic’s annualized revenue run rate had topped $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025. (bloomberg.com) That growth has made Anthropic one of the central companies in the race to sell large language models, the software behind chatbots and coding assistants. Reuters said in February that Anthropic had gained traction in coding products and the enterprise market, where companies buy tools for internal work and software development. (reuters.com) The company also sits at the center of a larger spending boom in artificial intelligence infrastructure. Anthropic said in November 2024 that Amazon would raise its total investment to $8 billion and make Amazon Web Services its primary cloud and training partner. (anthropic.com) Google is another major backer and supplier. Bloomberg reported in October 2025 that Google had already invested about $3 billion in Anthropic, including $2 billion in 2023 and another $1 billion in early 2025, while also supplying cloud capacity. (bloomberg.com) Anthropic’s decision to resist the latest offers leaves open whether it wants even richer terms, a different deal structure, or simply more time after February’s raise. For now, the clearest fact is that investors are still trying to buy into the company at prices that would rank among the highest ever discussed in private tech financing. (bloomberg.com)