Anthropic $50B funding round dey target about $900B valuation

AI startup Anthropic dey reportedly dey consider $50B funding round dis summer, wey dey target pre-money valuation near $900B. If dem close the deal, Anthropic fit push reach about $1T valuation and fit even pass OpenAI as biggest private AI company. Named backers include Dragoneer, General Catalyst, and Lightspeed Venture Partners. Latest reports still talk say annualized revenue fit soon exceed $45B (up from $9B late last year), as CFO Krishna Rao dey meet prospective investors and existing shareholders dey request allocations ahead of likely late-2026 IPO. For operations, demand for Claude tools dey reportedly outpace compute capacity, wey don cause recent supply constraints. To secure long-term compute, Anthropic don sign multi-year, multi-billion-dollar deals with SpaceXAI, Google, Broadcom, and AWS, wey fit add hundreds of billions to expected costs. Regulatory risk still dey after Anthropic lose a US government contract and face supply-chain/national-security designation, although one US court block the designation. For crypto traders, dis one more of AI/tech capital-markets signal than direct crypto catalyst, but e fit affect broader risk sentiment and how people position on “AI-linked” story. The AI funding round headline also support expectations of continued liquidity and scale-up in frontier AI — usually a tailwind for high-beta tech sentiment.