Paul Stenhouse: Anthropic announces $65 billion funding around, DuckDuckGo users spike as Google moves to replace search with AI
Move over ChatGPT, Claude is now the #1
Anthropic announced a new $65 billion funding round, bringing their valuation to $965 billion and making their company more valuable than OpenAI (valued at $852 billion in March). Now the race is on for the first AI company to grow to be worth $1 trillion.
I just can't stop thinking about the incredible wealth growth of their employees. We thought social media fuelled a new class of wealth, but this is next level.
It came the same day they launched Opus 4.8, which they say has better capabilities in agentic tasks, advanced coding, and comes with more of…
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