Anthropic completed a $65 billion Series H round, bringing its valuation to $965 billion and reportedly surpassing OpenAI. The round included strategic investments from memory makers Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix. The news highlights how frontier AI companies are increasingly tied to hardware and memory supply chains, as investors continue backing foundational model competition.
The visible AINews item centers on Anthropic, claiming a $965B Series H alongside Opus 4.8 and Dynamic Workflows/ultracode releases. The available body text is extremely brief, offering only the editorial line “Total Anthropic victory!” It signals a major Anthropic narrative across capital, Claude models, and developer workflows, but provides no detailed specs, benchmarks, investor terms, or availability information.
Simon Willison highlights Anthropic’s latest Series H announcement, where the company says run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier in May. He traces prior disclosures: about $9 billion at the end of 2025, $14 billion in February 2026, and over $30 billion in April. The post also addresses skepticism, arguing that these numbers appeared in fundraising announcements, where knowingly misleading investors would be securities fraud.
OpenRouter, an AI gateway startup founded in 2023, raised a $113 million Series B led by CapitalG. The round reportedly values the company at about $1.3 billion post-money, more than doubling from its estimated $547 million valuation after its June 2025 Series A. The company says it now offers access to over 400 models, has 8 million global users, and processes 100 trillion tokens per month.
AI 新創公司 Anthropic 傳出營收迎來爆發性成長,目前正進行新一輪融資,估值直逼 1 兆美元,有望超越 OpenAI 成為全球最貴的 AI 新創。據悉,包含矽谷創投巨頭 Peter Thiel 旗下的 Founders Fund 以及 General Catalyst 等既有投資人均計劃參與此次投資,顯示市場對其技術與商業化前景的高度信心。