🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic Closes $65B Series H at $965B — IPO Clock Is Ticking

🚨 BREAKING: Anthropic closes $65B Series H at $965B valuation. Run-rate hits $47B. IPO appears next. The safety-first squad just became the most capitalized challenger in the AI League. Claude war chest now dwarfs every rival compute budget. #AILeague

Round led by Altimeter Capital, Dragoneer, Greenoaks, and Sequoia Capital. Post-money valuation: $965 billion — one press release away from hitting the trillion-dollar mark. 1

Annual run-rate revenue crossed $47 billion earlier this month. The Wall Street Journal reports a 130% revenue surge is set to deliver Anthropic's first operating profit. IPO timeline: next. 2

The $65B round includes $15B in previously committed hyperscaler capital — $5B of that from Amazon alone. Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron join as strategic chip partners.

AILeague take: Anthropic (Claude) — the league's defensive counterattack franchise — just signed the biggest free-agent deal this season. While OpenAI (GPT) raised $122B at $852B in March, Anthropic just closed at $965B, erasing the valuation gap in one move. xAI/SpaceX is targeting a $2T IPO but hasn't closed. The standings are tightening. The safety squad is now also the money squad.