Anthropic has raised $30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling chatbot maker Claude’s valuation to $380 billion and highlighting significant investor interest in the startup and the broader AI industry.
The company differentiates itself by focusing on coding for model training, giving Claude Code a strong following among developers and an advantage over competitors in the enterprise AI market.
Anthropic’s recent announcement of a suite of plugins for its Cowork agents has triggered a frenzy in global software stocks as investors debate the disruptive potential that sophisticated AI models bring to the sector.
The funding round, announced Thursday, was co-led by investors including DE Shaw Ventures, ICONIQ, and MGX. This also includes some previously announced investments from Microsoft and Nvidia.
Anthropic has raised $13 billion in a Series F round, backed by Google and Amazon, that valued the company at $183 billion, the company announced in early September.
Meanwhile, Reuters reported in January that OpenAI could be valued at around $830 billion as part of negotiations with SoftBank Group to invest an additional $30 billion in the ChatGPT maker.
Rapid increase in revenue
Anthropic is rapidly building its revenue base. The company says its current run-rate revenue is $14 billion. For Claude Code alone, run-rate revenue has increased to more than $2.5 billion, more than doubling since the beginning of 2026.
The company says Claude Code’s enterprise subscriptions have quadrupled since the beginning of the year, and enterprise usage now accounts for more than half of Claude Code’s overall revenue.
Anthropic is increasingly pursuing business deals with products like Claude Cowork AI agents that perform white-collar computer tasks.
The company is also taking a different approach to AI regulation. As technology companies seek deregulation, Anthropic plans to donate $20 million to support U.S. political candidates who support regulation of the AI industry.
“Companies developing AI have a responsibility to ensure that their technology serves the public interest, not just their own interests,” Anthropic said separately earlier Thursday.
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, was increasing its stake in Anthropic to about $1 billion.
(Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bangalore; Editing by Alan Barona and Sriraj Karuvilla)
