Anthropic Weighs Deal That Would Value AI Company at Nearly $1 Trillion
SAN FRANCISCO — Anthropic, the artificial intelligence safety company behind the Claude chatbot, is considering a fundraising deal that would value the firm at nearly $1 trillion, according to a report from the Financial Times.
The potential deal, driven by surging revenue growth, would make Anthropic one of the most valuable private companies in U.S. history and mark a sharp increase in capital flowing into the American AI sector.
The San Francisco-based company, founded in 2021 by former OpenAI executives Dario and Daniela Amodei, has seen its valuation climb rapidly in recent years. Anthropic was valued at $61.5 billion in a funding round completed in early 2025, meaning a near-$1 trillion valuation would represent a more than fifteenfold increase in roughly a year.
The revenue growth underpinning the potential deal reflects intensifying enterprise demand for large language models and AI assistants. Anthropic’s Claude model family competes directly with OpenAI’s GPT series, Google DeepMind’s Gemini and other frontier AI systems for corporate and consumer adoption.
A valuation approaching $1 trillion would place Anthropic among the most valuable private companies and narrow the gap with OpenAI, which closed a $40 billion funding round in early 2025 at a $300 billion valuation before its own subsequent increases. The figure also underscores how private AI companies are commanding valuations that rival major publicly traded technology firms.
Anthropic has received investments from major technology companies, including Amazon, which has committed up to $8 billion in the company, and Google, which has invested $2 billion. The company has positioned itself as a safety-focused alternative in the frontier AI race, emphasizing its research into AI alignment and responsible scaling policies.
The potential deal comes amid a broader wave of investment into AI infrastructure and model development across the United States. Both the Biden and Trump administrations have prioritized American AI competitiveness, and private capital has followed, with tens of billions of dollars directed toward data centers, chip manufacturing and AI startups.
Terms of any potential transaction, including the size of the fundraise and the identity of investors, were not disclosed in the Financial Times report. It remains unclear whether the deal has been finalized or is still in preliminary discussions.
