Google plans to invest up to $40 billion in AI startup Anthropic, deepening a relationship between two companies that compete directly in the AI market while also depending on each other commercially. Google will commit $10 billion immediately, valuing Anthropic at $350 billion. An additional $30 billion may follow if Anthropic meets certain performance targets, …
Anthropic’s valuation has surged to $1 trillion on secondary markets, overtaking rival OpenAI in investor demand despite being valued at less than half of OpenAI’s $852 billion in their most recent funding rounds. Business Insider reports that the AI company’s shares are now trading above $1 trillion on Forge Global, a leading private marketplace exchange. …
Anthropic has launched Claude Design, a new product that lets users create visual work through conversational prompts. The tool produces designs, interactive prototypes, slide decks, one-pagers, and marketing collateral. It is available in research preview for paid Claude subscribers (Pro, Max, Team, and Enterprise) and is rolling out gradually. Claude Design is powered by Claude …
Anthropic has released Claude Opus 4.7, its most capable publicly available AI model. The company says the model performs better than its predecessor, Claude Opus 4.6, across software engineering, document analysis, and visual tasks. One of the model’s key traits is self-verification. In internal tests, Opus 4.7 built a text-to-speech engine in the Rust programming …
Anthropic is gaining ground on OpenAI in the competition for paying business customers. New data and revenue figures suggest the gap between the two leading AI companies is narrowing quickly. According to payments company Ramp, which tracks roughly $100 billion in annual card and invoice spending from 50,000 customers, nearly one in three US businesses …
Anthropic’s newest and most capable AI model, Claude Mythos, can autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities in virtually all major software systems. As I wrote previously, Mythos is currently only available to a select group of technology companies through Project Glasswing, Anthropic’s initiative to patch critical software before the capabilities become more widely known. Zvi …
Anthropic is rolling out a set of organizational controls for Claude Cowork, its AI-powered collaboration tool, making it available across all paid plans. A post in the official Claude Blog states that the update brings role-based access controls, group spending limits, expanded observability, and new usage analytics to help companies deploy the tool company-wide. Claude …
Anthropic has introduced a new AI model it considers too dangerous to release publicly. The model, called Claude Mythos Preview, can autonomously find and exploit security vulnerabilities in software. Instead of making it widely available, Anthropic is sharing access with a coalition of more than 40 organizations as part of an initiative called Project Glasswing. …
Anthropic’s AI assistant Claude is attracting paying subscribers at record rates. Julie Bort reports for TechCrunch that new paid sign-ups surged between January and February, with returning users also hitting record numbers in that period. A spokesperson for Anthropic confirmed that paid subscriptions have more than doubled this year. The findings come from an analysis …
The leaders of the two most powerful AI companies in the world are locked in a bitter personal and professional rivalry that is influencing how artificial intelligence develops globally. Keach Hagey reports for The Wall Street Journal that the conflict between OpenAI CEO Sam Altman and Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stretches back nearly a decade …