according to the latest report from techcrunch, ai industry leader anthropic has completed its series h funding round, raising a total of $65 billion. following this round, the company’s post-money valuation has surged to $965 billion, making it highly likely to be its final private financing before an ipo.
this round was co-led by altimeter capital, dragoneer investment group, greenoaks capital, and sequoia capital, with participation from top investment firms including blackrock, dst global, and baillie gifford. key partners in semiconductors and cloud infrastructure—such as samsung electronics, sk hynix, and micron technology—also took part as strategic investors. notably, major cloud service providers collectively invested $15 billion, with amazon having already announced a dedicated $5 billion investment back in april this year.
the new capital will be allocated across three key areas: deepening research into ai alignment and safety mechanisms, accelerating the deployment of global computing infrastructure, and building a synergistic ecosystem spanning chips, cloud services, and vertical industries. with the continued rise in enterprise adoption of the claude series models—especially claude code for developers—anthropic has seen explosive growth in both revenue and customer retention. its current valuation, approaching $1 trillion, has positioned it widely as the ai unicorn closest to going public after openai.
this funding round not only underscores the capital markets’ unwavering confidence in the long-term value of cutting-edge ai technologies but also signals that anthropic has fully entered the deep waters of global large-model competition. as preparations for an ipo gather pace, the market is closely watching how the company can deliver on its technological implementation and ensure sustainable commercialization at such a high valuation.
