Anthropic is ignoring venture capital funding offers valued at more than $800 billion at the moment

Venture capitalists like to go after the hottest startups, but startups aren’t always interested in selling more shares. This is the case with anthropological sources He told Bloomberg.

Venture capital firms are offering OpenAI’s competitor a pre-emptive funding round that would value the company at $800 billion or more — roughly equaling or possibly surpassing its rival. In February, OpenAI closed on a record $110 billion The round gave it a post-cash valuation of $852 billion. Just a few weeks ago, Anthropic announced a $30 billion round (which would also have been record-breaking in another era), at a valuation of $380 billion.

But so far, Anthropic hasn’t been interested in the venture capital firms’ latest offerings, Bloomberg reported. Of course, this could change. Humanity has enormous capital expenditures to consider, even if it doesn’t Signing agreements with the same enthusiasm as OpenAI.

Claude Maker has in recent months, for example, It has allocated $50 billion to build its data centers, $30 billion to spend on it Microsoft cloud, spending billions annually on AWS. At some point, it may need money, especially if it can raise it on good terms, perhaps at more than double its previous valuation.

And still investors They look at Anthropic’s growing revenues – It’s said to be worth $30 billion by the end of March, up from $9 billion at the end of 2025 – and the saying is “worth it.” Investors are hungry for humanitarian stocks resulting in growing demand It is almost insatiable in secondary markets. So, with the slightest hint from Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei, his company could secure funding that beats its competitor’s valuation.

Anthropic declined to comment to Bloomberg and did not immediately respond to our request for comment.