Anthropic has fielded multiple offers from venture capital firms, valuing the company at $800 billion in recent weeks, according to a Business Insider report that cites people familiar with the matter. This would nearly double its current valuation.
The report mentions that “buzzy” startups often field preemptive offers from investors only to rebuff them. However, the interest from the VCs indicate that rising demand for a stake in Anthropic closed a funding round in February that valued the company at $380 billion.
The company is valued at $688 billion on Caplight, a secondary exchange where investors can trade shares of privately held companies. That is up 75% in three months.
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According to Business Insider, investors and founders have been impressed by Anthropic’s growth and momentum around its AI-coding assistant Claude Code. “They’re crushing it,” Jared Quincy Davis, founder and CEO of Mithril, an AI cloud platform, said about Anthropic last week at HumanX, an AI conference.
Anthropic had announced last week that its run revenue rate has risen to $30 billion, up from $9 billion at the end of last year. It also added that over 1,000 business customers are spending more than $1 million a year. This figure had doubled in less than two months.
In April, Anthropic released its latest model, Mythos, which it said is so powerful it cannot yet be unleashed upon the general public because of the risk of cyber attacks. “The Mythos model is a huge deal, Tomasz Tunguz, founder and general partner of Theory Ventures, said last week at HumanX. “There’s a tremendous amount of excitement.”
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In its official blog post, Anthropic introduced Mythos as a breakthrough in autonomous cybersecurity, warning that the model could be dangerous if it fell into the wrong hands. Rather than allowing broad access, the company is reportedly testing it through a closed initiative called “Project Glasswing,” giving access to Mythos only to select researchers and organizations. The company said that releasing it to the public would be like handing advanced hacking capabilities to anyone with a laptop.
The hype around Mythos has led to mixed reactions. While some have called it a big leap in security, others have questioned Anthropic’s claims, saying this might be a strategic plan designed to grab attention. The Wall Street Journal, however, had reported that the U.S. government officials had met Wall Street banks, telling them to get ready for Mythos and do a thorough review of their digital security.