Anthropic just topped OpenAI on a major metric ahead of rival IPOs

AI competitors Anthropic, maker of Claude, and OpenAI, maker of ChatGPT, are in close contention as they near a public debut—and a $1 trillion valuation.

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei [Photo: Samyukta Lakshmi/Bloomberg via Getty Images]

Anthropic is nearing a $1 trillion valuation, topping rival OpenAI and making it the most valuable artificial intelligence startup, as the two competitors head toward their initial public offerings.

On Thursday San Francisco-based Anthropic announced it had raised $65 billion in Series H funding, bringing it to a $965 billion valuation. The latest round was led by Altimeter Capital,........

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