The Anthropic funding round values the Claude maker at $965 billion, driven by Claude Code, enterprise demand, Claude Opus 4.8, and major AI infrastructure partnerships.
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Andrej Karpathy has joined Anthropic’s pretraining team, where he will work on Claude and help build a group focused on AI-assisted model research.
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The Anthropic funding round could raise roughly $30 billion and value the Claude maker at about $900 billion, nearly tripling its February valuation.
