Anthropic Raises $30 Billion, Claude Developer Valued at $380 Billion

Early this morning, AI unicorn Anthropic announced that it has closed itsUS$30 billion (approximately RMB 207.019 billion)G-wheelfinancingThe post-investment valuation of the company amounted toUS$380 billion (about RMB 2.62 trillion)The company's annualized recurring revenue has reachedUS$14 billion (about RMB 69.909 billion)In the past three years, the average annual growth rate has beenOver 10 times.

▲Anthropic Bulletin (Source: X)

According to Anthropic's announcement, the funds from the financing will fuel cutting-edge research, product development and infrastructure expansion, and Claude is currently the only company that has a presence on the three major global cloud platformsAmazon Web Services Bedrock、Google Cloud Vertex AI、Microsoft Azure Foundry同时可用的AI模型。

As soon as the news was released, Musk immediately jumped in to question Anthropic's Claude model as it relates to race and sexism.

▲ Musk issued a challenge (Source: X)

One user commented below, “Please Elon, get Grok right.” Musk replied, “4.2 would be better.”

▲ Musk replies to internet comments (Source: X)

Anthropic's round of financing was co-led by the Ontario Teachers' Retirement Foundation and Coatue, with co-leaders also including D. E. Shaw Ventures, Dragoneer, Founders Fund, ICONIQ, and MGX, according to the announcement.Significant investors in the round included Blackstone Group, Goldman Sachs Alternative Investments' Growth Equity unit, JPMorgan Chase, Sequoia Capital, Temasek and others.

This round also includes the November 2025 announced investments from NVIDIA and Microsoft, whereby NVIDIA and Microsoft have committed to invest in Anthropic respectivelyUS$10 billion (approximately RMB 69.006 billion)cap (a poem)US$5 billion (approximately RMB 34.503 billion). (Anthropic receives $100 billion investment from Microsoft NVIDIA! Valuation soars to $2.5 trillion)

First, more than 500 customers shell out millions of dollars a year, the Fortune 10 grabbed the use of

The announcement revealed that in terms of annualized recurring revenue, annual consumptionOver $100,000 (about Rs. 690,100)The number of Claude clients in the past year7-fold increase.. Companies that started using Claude from a single use case API, Claude Code, or Claude for Work are expanding their integration across the organization.

Two years ago, just over a dozen Claude clients were spending more than a million dollars a year; today that number isBreaking 500Of the Fortune 10 companies8Now a Claude client.

Claude Code has been fully open since May 2025, and today its annualized recurring revenue has beenMore than $2.5 billion (about RMB 17.252 billion), doubling the increase since the beginning of 2026.

Claude Code has also doubled the number of weekly active users since January 1, 2026 Recent analysis shows that the code in public GitHub commits globally are4%was generated by Claude Code, and the ratio is a month old2x.

Claude Code's corporate subscriptions since the beginning of 2026 alsoIt's quadrupled.The business use contribution has beenMore than half of total revenue.

Second, Opus 4.6 debuts with millions of tokens, Claude Code goes wild with developers

Over the past 1 year, Anthropic has made widely recognized accomplishments on both the model and product side.

Anthropic's Claude series of models continues to be iterated by theVersion 3.7 upgraded to the latest version 4.5The programmability and Agent capabilities are significantly improved, allowing for more end-to-end and prolonged completion of complex tasks in productivity scenarios.

On February 6, 2026, Anthropic released its flagship modelClaude Opus 4.6It's Anthropic.confess one's crimeopens1 million token context windowThe flagship model for testing functionality, which has improved capabilities for long contextual queries, reasoning, planning, and more. (Claude Opus 4.6 kills programming contests! (Mining 500 0day vulnerabilities, generating k-line volume distributions, and a PPT straight out of the box)

▲Claude Opus 4.6 release tweet (Source: X)

In his area of programming specialization, Claude is not always at the top of the list, but has a better reputation in the developer community.

On the product side, Anthropic made a breakout productClaude CodeIn February 2025, Claude Code was released with Claude 3.7 Sonnet, and since then has quickly become the developer's circle ofbreakthrough.

As an AI programming assistant that automates engineering tasks, reads and writes code libraries, and runs tests, Claude Code uses a command line interface familiar to developers, and also continues to make progress in context persistence, Agent capabilities, and experience optimization.

▲Claude Code (Source: Anthropic)

In January, Anthropic also launched a graphical UI version of Claude Code - theCoworkClaude Code's Agent capabilities are now available to more people with non-technical backgrounds. Today, more people from non-technical backgrounds can also use Claude Code's Agent capabilities for non-programming tasks such as organizing files and crawling web pages.

In addition, Anthropic seeks to define the open ecology of the Agent track. in October 2025, Anthropic launched theAgent SkillsThe concept was officially released as an open standard in December of the same year, in an attempt to equip intelligences with modular capabilities similar to “skill packages”, which can be encapsulated, reused, shared and combined.

Agent Skills are essentially a folder-like structure of commands, resources, and optional scripts that Claude automatically identifies and loads on-demand based on the task at hand, allowing for repeatable, combinable, and specialized task-execution capabilities, rather than being driven by a cue word each time!

In addition, Anthropic is working on theIPOPreparations could be made as early as2026Anthropic has engaged law firms to carry out pre-preparation work and has made initial contact with a number of investment banks in relation to the listing.

Conclusion: Anthropic Commercialization Hits the Accelerator Button

Unlike OpenAI's To C route, Anthropic is more focused on the To B market.

Anthropic has achieved $14 billion in annualized revenues, three years of over 10x annualized growth, and its product Claude Code contributes over $2.5 billion in annualized revenues, a series of accomplishments that signify Anthropic is advancing commercialization at an astonishing pace and turning technology leadership into market dominance.

Anthropic's diversified infrastructure layouts spanning AWS Trainium, Google TPU, and NVIDIA GPUs provide enterprise customers with both performance and resilience infrastructure protection, which is precisely the moat Anthropic has constructed in the midst of fierce competition.