{"slug": "anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up", "title": "Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up", "summary": "Anthropic raised $65 billion in new financing, valuing the artificial intelligence start-up at $900 billion and surpassing OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion to become the world’s most valuable A.I. company. The San Francisco firm, which also unveiled its new Claude Opus 4.8 model, has seen its valuation nearly double in three months, driven by strong demand for its software coding technology that has pushed its revenue run rate past $47 billion.", "body_md": "Supported by\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](#after-sponsor)\n\n# Anthropic Tops OpenAI to Become the World’s Most Valuable A.I. Start-Up\n\nAnthropic raised $65 billion in new fund-raising that put its value at $900 billion, ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion, as the companies duel for A.I. dominance.\n\nAnthropic, once the lesser-known artificial intelligence competitor to OpenAI, has been on an inexorable rise over the past few months.\n\nThe San Francisco company recently dueled with the Pentagon over the use of A.I. in warfare. It released a powerful A.I. model, [Mythos](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/04/07/technology/anthropic-claims-its-new-ai-model-mythos-is-a-cybersecurity-reckoning.html), that it said was uncannily capable of finding and exploiting hidden flaws in software. And the [company advised Pope Leo XIV](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/26/us/pope-leo-ai-anthropic.html) on his papal encyclical delivered on Monday, in which he warned about safeguarding humanity from A.I.’s most disruptive effects.\n\nOn Thursday, [Anthropic](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/06/technology/anthropic-ceo-ai-growth.html) punctuated its ascent by officially passing OpenAI as the world’s highest flying A.I. start-up. Anthropic said it had raised $65 billion in financing that values it at $900 billion before the inclusion of the new capital, a deal that puts it ahead of OpenAI’s last valuation of $730 billion. The company also unveiled a new flagship A.I. model, Claude Opus 4.8, which is significantly better than its predecessor at generating computer code.\n\nThe new investment, which was led by investors including Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group, boosted Anthropic’s value by nearly two and a half times its previous valuation of $380 billion about [three months](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/12/technology/anthropic-valuation-380-billion-funding.html) ago.\n\nThe funding underlined the company’s success in developing A.I. technology that excels in writing software code, which has turned into a robust business. Since Anthropic improved its [A.I. coding technology](https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/23/technology/claude-code.html) in November, hundreds of businesses have signed up to pay for the software. The company said its “revenue run rate,” which is its expected revenue for the year based on its current performance, crossed $47 billion this month.\n\n“This funding will help us serve the historic demand we are experiencing, stay at the research frontier, and bring Claude to more of the places where work happens,” said Krishna Rao, Anthropic’s chief financial officer.\n\n## Related Content\n\nAdvertisement\n\n[SKIP ADVERTISEMENT](#after-bottom)", "url": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up", "canonical_source": "https://www.nytimes.com/2026/05/28/technology/anthropic-tops-openai-valuation.html", "published_at": "2026-05-28 18:36:19+00:00", "updated_at": "2026-05-28 19:01:02.228714+00:00", "lang": "en", "topics": ["artificial-intelligence", "ai-startups", "ai-products", "ai-safety", "ai-policy"], "entities": ["Anthropic", "OpenAI", "Mythos", "Pope Leo XIV", "Claude Opus 4.8", "Pentagon"], "alternates": {"html": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up", "markdown": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up.md", "text": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up.txt", "jsonld": "https://wpnews.pro/news/anthropic-tops-openai-to-become-the-worlds-most-valuable-a-i-start-up.jsonld"}}