Instagram · May 29, 2026
Partially trueAnthropic Secures $65 Billion in Funding at $965 Billion Valuation
I think Anthropic just had one of the most important days in their company's history. Let me explain. So two things happen yesterday. First, they shipped Claude Opus 4.8. And second, they raised 65 billion dollars at a 965 billion dollar valuation. Now Opus 4.8 is a real upgrade. It's four time less likely to hide its own coding mistakes and Claude code can now run hundreds of parallel agents in a single session. But the model isn't the biggest story in my opinion. This funding round is what I keep thinking about. See, Anthropic spent three years telling the world that AI might be genuinely dangerous and that they might be building something that goes wrong in ways that nobody can fully predict. That narrative was built over time. When every other lab was just selling the best models, they were priming us into believing that they have something which is even better. And that has attracted capital from the likes of biggest investors like Google, Amazon, Sequoia. Now some people also say that this entire too dangerous to release messaging is just pre IPO marketing, which is a fair read, but the outcome still remains the same. Anthropic is almost worth a trillion dollars today and then best models still isn't even out. Sources are claiming that Lord Mythos will drop in the next few weeks, which just seems convenient timing after the funding round has been secured. So do hit that follow button to hear my thoughts when it drops and I'll catch you guys in the next one.
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