$30 billion in funding and a $900 billion valuation—does this pace from Anthropic mean it’s going to go head-to-head with OpenAI?

AIMPACT announces that the latest $30 billion funding round for Anthropic has been finalized, with a pre-money valuation of $900 billion, expected to close this month. The co-lead investors are Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, and Altimeter, each investing at least $200 million, with three of them being major shareholders in OpenAI, indicating the formation of a duopoly in the AI field. CFO Krishna Rao is driving the process, with Google and Amazon not participating; the remaining shares are still under negotiation, and the terms may be adjusted.