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In one of those tech biz stories where the source is \u201cpeople familiar with the matter,\u201d\u00a0Bloomberg is claiming that Anthropic is preparing for a funding round that will value the company at \u201cmore than $900.\u201d Anthropic\u2019s chief competitor, OpenAI, closed a funding round about a month ago valuing it at $852 billion.<\/p>\n
So there would be a new AI valuation champ in town, and there are good reasons to think this round really could be coming. Anthropic shares on some secondary markets are already traded at prices that would place Anthropic\u2019s total value at around $1 trillion.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Anthropic is a private company, but publicly traded stock will become a reality later this year if its rumored IPO goes forward.<\/p>\n
The company\u2019s most recent funding round was in February, placing its value at $380 billion at the time, a dizzyingly sharp rise in less than three months.<\/p>\n
Earlier this month, it was reported that Anthropic had turned down a funding round that would have valued it at about $800 billion. Around that same time, the Financial Times ran a story claiming that OpenAI backers seemed to be getting buyer\u2019s remorse as Anthropic began pulling in billions of dollars in revenue from enterprise customers over the past several months.<\/p>\n
Anthropic investors, it should be noted, have to look past a rather ominous asterisk when they contemplate the company\u2019s financials: It was labeled a supply chain risk by the Pentagon, a designation that came with an order demanding that all Pentagon contractors not do business with it. Anthropic\u2019s litigation over the designation is still pending, and in the meantime, Anthropic\u2019s future is ostensibly in serious jeopardy. But apparently over on Sand Hill Road, the Pentagon\u2019s bluster doesn\u2019t even register.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n