Feb 12 (Reuters) – Anthropic has raised $30 billion in its latest funding round, more than doubling the valuation of chatbot maker Claude to $380 billion and underscoring huge investor interest in the startup and the broader AI industry.
The company has differentiated itself by focusing the formation of its model on coding, with Claude Code gaining strong momentum among developers and helping the company gain an advantage over its rivals in the enterprise AI market.
Anthropic’s recently launched suite of add-ons for its Cowork agent had sparked a brutal sell-off in global software stocks as investors debated the industry-disruptive potential of sophisticated AI models.
The funding round, announced Thursday, was co-led by investors including DE Shaw Ventures, ICONIQ and MGX. It also included a portion of previously announced investments from Microsoft and Nvidia.
Anthropic, backed by Google and Amazon, had raised $13 billion in a Series F round that valued the company at $183 billion, the company said in early September.
Meanwhile, OpenAI could be valued at around $830 billion as part of talks with SoftBank Group to invest up to an additional $30 billion in the ChatGPT maker, Reuters reported in January.
INCOME INCREASES
Anthropic has quickly built its revenue base: the company said its current revenue is $14 billion. For Claude Code alone, run-rate revenue has grown to more than $2.5 billion, more than doubling since the beginning of 2026.
Business subscriptions to Claude Code have quadrupled since the beginning of the year, and business use now accounts for more than half of all Claude Code revenue, the company said.
Anthropic has further deepened its push for commercial deals with products like the Claude Cowork AI agent, which performs computing tasks for white-collar workers.
The company has also taken a different approach to AI regulation. While technology companies have pushed for less regulation, Anthropic has drawn up plans to donate $20 million to back US political candidates who support regulation of the artificial intelligence industry.
“Companies that create AI have a responsibility to help ensure that the technology serves the public good, not just their own interests,” Anthropic had said separately on Thursday.
Earlier this week, Reuters reported that Blackstone, the world’s largest alternative asset manager, was increasing its stake in Anthropic to around $1 billion.
(Reporting by Deborah Sophia in Bengaluru; Editing by Alan Barona and Sriraj Kalluvila)