Anthropic has reached a valuation of approximately $965 billion after closing a new funding round.
The raise moves the Claude developer past OpenAI as the world's most valuable private AI company.
New Investors Include Korean Chipmakers
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix both acquired strategic stakes in Anthropic as part of the round, The Star reported.
Their participation ties two of the world's largest memory-chip producers directly to the frontier AI race. Neither company disclosed the size of its stake. The involvement of hardware manufacturers adds a supply-chain dimension to the raise.
Anthropic was founded in 2021 by former OpenAI researchers, including Dario Amodei and Daniela Amodei. The company has raised successive large rounds since then, backed by Google and Amazon. Its Claude model family has grown from a research release into a commercially deployed product used in enterprise software and developer tooling.
Anthropic's April reveal of Claude Mythos, a model capable of autonomously finding and exploiting software vulnerabilities, drew both alarm and applause, cementing the company's image as the AI lab most willing to flag its own products as dangerous. The follow-up Project Glasswing program, which routed Mythos to firms like Apple, Microsoft and Google instead of the public, was widely read as a serious safety stance, though critics including security researcher Bruce Schneier called it an effective PR play that competitors quickly copied.
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Valuation Context
OpenAI's last reported valuation stood at around $300 billion following its own funding activity in 2025. Anthropic's $965 billion figure would place it within striking distance of a $1 trillion mark. The gap between the two companies has closed sharply over 18 months. Anthropic has not confirmed the round's total size publicly as of this writing.
What the Round Reflects
Investor appetite for frontier AI labs has not slowed despite rising compute costs and model-development timelines stretching longer.
The $965 billion figure arrives as the broader AI infrastructure market attracts record capital. A separate WSJ report from this week noted venture capital is rotating toward hardware and physical AI rather than pure software plays. Anthropic sits at the intersection of both categories. Its Claude models require heavy compute, and its new chip-company backers supply the hardware stack those models run on.
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