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, and three of them are 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.

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2026-05-22 08:07:52

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AIMPACT News, May 15 (UTC+8), according to Beating Monitoring, the terms of Anthropic's new $30 billion funding round have been finalized, with a pre-money valuation of $900 billion, and the deal is expected to close within this month. The lead investors are the most noteworthy information about this funding round. Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia Capital, and Altimeter Capital are co-leading the round, each investing at least $2 billion. Among them, three are also major shareholders in OpenAI: Dragoneer invested nearly $3 billion in OpenAI last year, Sequoia has been betting on ChatGPT since 2021, and Altimeter CEO Brad Gerstner has publicly supported Sam Altman multiple times in podcasts and interviews. Now, they are simultaneously writing large checks for competitors whose valuations are about to surpass OpenAI, effectively signaling through real money that AI is a duopoly rather than a winner-takes-all scenario. This funding round came very quickly. The dealmaker is Anthropic's first CFO Krishna Rao, who joined in May 2024. His most notable previous deal was securing $1 billion in emergency funding for Airbnb during the 2020 pandemic outbreak. After investors proactively approached him last month, he initiated negotiations and locked in terms within two weeks. Google and Amazon are expected not to participate in this round. Anthropic is still negotiating remaining shares with other investors, and final terms may still be adjusted before the announcement. (Source: BlockBeats)

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FrontrunTherapy

· 9h ago

From a valuation of 18 billion to 900 billion, even Web3 is silent at this rapid leap.

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HotspotChaser

· 9h ago

Dragoneer and Greenoaks are betting on both companies at the same time, playing the hedge smartly.

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SpiralCandlestickCollecting

· 9h ago

Krishna Rao is quite capable; he has kicked out both Google and Amazon.

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GateUser-c25a653c

· 9h ago

The duopoly has been confirmed; from now on, it will be Claude versus ChatGPT.

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PfpArchaeologist

· 10h ago

Sequoia bets on both sides, a classic risk hedging operation

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HotAirBalloonCrossingMountains

· 10h ago

30 billion this round, settlement at the end of the month, the speed is astonishing

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RollupStreetKid

· 10h ago

Three OpenAI shareholders are coming to invest in Anthropic—Wall Street fence-sitter philosophy

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NonceNomad

· 10h ago

900 billion pre-investment valuation, this number made my hands tremble.

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