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Generative AI company announced Thursday that it in a massive Series G funding round that values it at $380 billion post-money. The financing marks the largest venture funding deal of 2026 so far and the second-largest of all time, per , following only rival 鈥檚 $40 billion funding in 2025.

and led the raise, which was also 鈥渃o-led鈥� by , , , and , according to the company. A slew of other backers participated in the round as well, and included from and .

With this round, San Francisco-based Anthropic has now raised nearly $64 billion since its 2021 inception, per .

The Claude chatbot developer remains the second-most highly valued generative AI startup behind rival OpenAI, which in October at a $500 billion valuation. Anthropic is also the fourth-most highly valued private company in the world, per SA国际传媒 data. It and OpenAI are reportedly both considering IPOs this year.

Anthropic鈥檚 growth

Anthropic says its run-rate revenue is now over $14 billion, a figure it claims grew over 10x annually in each of the past three years since it 鈥渆arned its first dollar in revenue.鈥�

The number of customers spending over $100,000 annually on Claude (as represented by run-rate revenue) has grown 7x in the past year, the company added.

Anthropic says the investment will fuel frontier research, product development and infrastructure expansions.

鈥淲hether it is entrepreneurs, startups, or the world鈥檚 largest enterprises, the message from our customers is the same: Claude is increasingly becoming more critical to how businesses work,鈥� said , Anthropic鈥檚 chief financial officer, in . 鈥淭his fundraising reflects the incredible demand we are seeing from these customers, and we will use this investment to continue building the enterprise-grade products and models they have come to depend on.鈥�

, head of the technology investment group at GIC, said in a statement that his firm believes that 鈥淎nthropic鈥檚 thoughtful approach to AI development is changing the way enterprises operate.鈥�

He added: 鈥淥ur partnership and continued investment reflects our conviction in their visionary leadership team and technical depth as they expand access to advanced AI tools.鈥�

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