Google’s $40B Anthropic Bet Reshapes AI Venture Capital
Google commits up to $40 billion to Anthropic in the largest private AI investment ever, just four days after Amazon’s $5 billion new tranche brought its total stake to $13B.
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Anthropic at $800 Billion: How AI Rewrote Venture Capital
Investors are valuing Anthropic at $800 billion — more than Goldman Sachs. Here’s what that tells us about AI’s private capital revolution.