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Venture funding has always been a world of haves and have nots. And these days, the haves are having more than ever. Case in point this week was generative AI giant Anthropic's $65 billion Series H funding, followed by a billion-dollar funding for an AI software developer.
Anthropic neared a trillion-dollar valuation following fresh funding. This and more in today’s ETtech Top 5.
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.8, an upgrade to Claude Opus 4.7 that the company says brings improved results for coding, agent work, reasoning, and knowledge work. The platform can be used through claude.ai, Claude Code and the Claude API, with the API name claude-opus-4-8. The company has al
The way to read the latest Anthropic financing is to notice who is not borrowing the money. Apollo Global Management and Blackstone are arranging roughly $36 billion of debt, but the loan does not sit on Anthropic’s balance sheet. It buys chips, and the chips get leased back. The two firms are bring
The company’s valuation has more than doubled from $380 billion in February, reflecting its swift rise as a leading competitor in the AI race and intense investor demand for stakes in frontier companies. Anthropic said its run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month.
Anthropic PBC today introduced a new large language model, Claude Opus 4.8, that’s significantly better than its predecessor at complex coding tasks. The company announced the LLM alongside another major business milestone. Anthropic has raised $65 billion in new funding at a $965 billion valuation
Anthropic has closed a $65 billion Series H round at a $965 billion post-money valuation, marking what could be the AI startup's final private fundraise before a highly anticipated IPO.
Who better to copy than the team shipping it every day?
Anthropic shipped Claude Sonnet 4.6 in February 2026, roughly five months after Sonnet 4.5 launched in September 2025. Both carry the same API pricing ($3 input / $15 output per million tokens), but the gap in capability is meaningful. If you're picking a model to build on right now, the choice matt
Anthropic said on Thursday it has raised $65 billion in a series H funding round, valuing it at $965 billion post-money.
Mythos is the AI lab's large language model with advanced cybersecurity capabilities that have raised concerns among executives and world leaders about its impact.
Anthropic is releasing Claude Opus 4.8 on Thursday, and the company is touting the model's "honesty." According to Anthropic, it trains "all [its] models to be honest - for instance, to avoid making claims that they can't support." But it notes that "a general problem with AI models is that they som
The new Opus model comes with a tool called Dynamic Workflows, for coordinating swarms of subagents.
Anthropic has released its latest AI model with Claude Opus 4.8. The new version arrives less than two months after the previous model upgrade, ramping up Anthropic’s upgrade cadence. more…
Elon Musk is publicly reframing xAI’s massive Anthropic compute deal as short-term and cancellable, despite SpaceX’s own S-1 filing describing payments through May 2029.
SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Memphis Colossus 1 cluster to Anthropic, Elon Musk said on Wednesday, describing the agreement as 180 days with a 90-day mutual cancellation right. Elon Musk has clarified that SpaceX did not commit to a multi-year lease of its Colossus 1 data centr
Elon Musk clarified that SpaceX's lease of its Colossus AI training data center clusters to Anthropic is for six months, not multiple years as previously indicated. Musk stated on X that the short-term agreement was SpaceX's request, with a mutual 90-day cancellation notice possible thereafter. He a
Problem The longer a Claude Code session runs, the worse the model’s judgment gets. Anthropic calls it “context rot.” In one dissected 70 MB session dump, 93 % was noise: redundant JSON envelope metadata, stale tool results, old base64 screenshots. Only 3 % was actual conversation. Clouded judgment
Anthropic open-sourced a cool desk pet project, so I ported it to the WT32-SC01 Plus.
Anthropic's co-founder Christopher Olah has warned about impending job displacements owing to AI. Olah was speaking at the release of first encyclical on AI by Pope
