April 29 (Reuters) – Anthropic is weighing a funding round that would value the Claude maker at over $900 billion, Bloomberg News reported on Wednesday, citing people familiar with the matter.
• The artificial intelligence startup is entertaining offers at more than double its current valuation, though the considerations are at an early stage and no offers have been accepted yet, the report said.
• Anthropic, which raised $30 billion at a $380 billion valuation in February, did not immediately respond to a Reuters request for comment.
• If Anthropic closes a round at the reported valuation, it could dethrone rival OpenAI – valued at $852 billion in March – as the world’s most valuable AI startup.
• The fundraising push comes ahead of a potential IPO which may be launched as soon as October, the Bloomberg report said.
• Anthropic was resisting investor proposals at valuations of $800 billion or more, earlier reports had said, as major backers Alphabet’s Google and Amazon continued to announce multi-billion-dollar performance-based investments.
(Reporting by Anhata Rooprai in Bengaluru; Editing by Jonathan Ananda)
