The Claude makers value just keeps soaring. (Picture: Adobe)Hot off the heels from discussing a $300 billion valuation, Anthropic is raising the bar in its latest funding round.
The leading financiers are Singapore’s sovereign wealth fund GIC and Coatue Management, which are forking out $10 billion to the AI lab’s coffers.
Recently, Anthropic started testing the IPO market in what would be the strongest market debut for quite some time.
They also got a $30 billion investment from Microsoft and Nvidia in late November, and started this funding round in December.
It works out to a respectable middle ground for Anthropic, valuing the company between xAI’s recent $230 billion and OpenAI’s well documented worth of $500 billion.
While Disney is licensing to OpenAI, they are fighting other hard over others’ copyright violations. (Picture: andy orin, CC BY 2.0)Users will be able to use Disney characters without breaking copyrights, in return for Disney getting to use the technology internally for three years.
The deal will license some 200 Disney-owned characters from the likes of Disney, Marvel, Pixar and Star Wars for use in Sora, free of charge (as in money) and charges (as in lawsuits).
The deal will also see Disney adopt ChatGPT and Sora internally, which is the other way of the license — helping Disney do everything from light sketches to development planning.
Data center deals are flourishing and none of the big tech spenders feel they can afford not be in the race. (Picture: Adobe)Quarterly results are in for Microsoft, Alphabet and Meta — and while the numbers are mixed, they all agree on big capital expenditures — needed for building data centers — for fiscal year 2025.
The coming AI wars will be fought with data centers and gigawatts, and nobody wants to lose out.
Anthropic is firing on all cylinders lately, and now has the valuation to prove it. (Picture: Anthropic)Growth seems exponential for the company, both in annual revenue, numbers of subscribers — and now in investor valuation.
The company has just finished a «Series F» fundraising round of $13 billion at a valuation of $183 billion, which will «expand our capacity to meet growing enterprise demand, deepen our safety research, and support international expansion as we continue building reliable, interpretable, and steerable AI systems,»Anthropic writes.
OpenAI is raking in the money, almost reaching its yearly projection by June. (Picture: Pictures of Money, CC BY 2.0)The ChatGPT maker had forecast ~$11 billion in revenue for all of 2025, now it’s close to that target and it’s only June.
According to TechCrunch, the revenue streams from consumer products, 500 million active weekly ChatGPT users, API sales, and 3 million paying business customers.
AI industry is booming
This caps six months of remarkable growth for the AI business. Recently, Anthropic reported record revenue growth, having reached $3 billion in revenue so far this year.
Sources say Anthropic’s revenue is growing exponentially. (Picture: Anthropic)The company hit $1B in revenue in December last year, $2B in March and just jumped another billion in May, according to sources speaking to Reuters.
These numbers are so impressive, one analyst says they lack comparison:
OpenAI predicts astronomical revenue by the end of the decade. (Picture: Conceptphoto.info, CC BY 2.0)ChatGPT use is up to about «something like 10% of the world» said CEO Sam Altman, putting the numbers reached at roughly 800 million people, according to Pymnts.com, but that won’t be the main driver of income in coming years.
The company said in March that it anticipates revenue above $11.6 billion in 2025 – nearly tripling its 2024 numbers. It will then jump from $125B in 2029 to $174B in 2030.
Revenue will rise significantly once it can develop and charge for AI agents, and «free user monetization,» according to Slashdot.
What that «monetization» will entail is unclear so far, but Pymnts.com says they have considered things such as charging affiliate fees on links, giving it a cut of sales generated from the platform.
