Claude vs. ChatGPT. Anthropic overtakes OpenAI in value

AI startup Anthropic has raised USD 65 billion in investments and received a valuation of USD 900 billion, which exceeds OpenAI's USD 730 billion.

The New York Times reports this.

Anthropic's USD 65 billion investment round closes at a valuation of USD 900 billion before new capital is raised. This figure is higher than OpenAI's latest valuation of USD 730 billion.

Greenoaks Capital Greenoaks Capital, Sequoia Capital Sequoia Capital, Altimeter Capital Altimeter Capital and Dragoneer Investment Group Dragoneer Investment Group participated in the round, which led the financing.

In three months, Anthropic's valuation has increased by about 2.5 times - previously it was USD 380 billion. The company was founded in 2021 and has surpassed the period it took OpenAI to reach similar scale in terms of growth.

The growth of the business is associated with the development of programming tools. After updating the technologies for writing code in November, hundreds of companies began to pay for access to its software. Anthropic claims that the projected annual revenue based on current figures this month exceeded USD 47 billion.

Separately, the activity of the company's CEO Dario Amodei is recorded, who has repeatedly publicly emphasized the risks of artificial intelligence and called for its regulation. This is accompanied by discussions with the Pentagon on the use of AI in the military sphere, including a lawsuit against the Pentagon and its head Hegseth.

The most popular generative AI service so far remains OpenAI's ChatGPT, which is used by about 900 million people every month - nearly 10% of the world's population. It is 2.7 times more popular than its nearest competitor in terms of monthly traffic.