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Anthropic Just Hit $965B. You Are Overpaying 7x For AI.

DEV Community: machinelearning·Skila AI·about 14 hours ago
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Anthropic is now worth more than OpenAI. On May 28, 2026, it closed a $65 billion Series H at a $965 billion post-money valuation. That edges past OpenAI's $852 billion. The engine behind the number is Claude Code, the coding agent whose run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier that month. Here is the part nobody puts on the slide. The exact same monthly AI workload that costs you around $2,500 on Claude Opus and $3,000 on GPT-5.5 costs about $348 on DeepSeek. You are paying the premium. They are becoming a trillion-dollar company. This is the AI API pricing war , and it is the single most important line item on your 2026 infrastructure bill. The $965B number, and where it comes from Anthropic's Series H raised $65 billion. Roughly $15 billion of that was previously committed capital from hyperscalers, including $5 billion from Amazon announced in April. It was co-led by Altimeter, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, Sequoia, Capital Group, Coatue, and D1 Capital Partners.…

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