Anthropic's run-rate revenue has surpassed $30 billion in 2026, up from $9 billion, driven by surging demand for its Claude AI model.

Anthropic, the AI company behind the Claude chatbot, is reportedly in early discussions with Goldman Sachs, JPMorgan, and Morgan Stanley for an IPO as soon as October 2026 that could raise over $60 billion, making it one of the largest tech listings in history.

OpenAI has grown its historic funding round to over $120 billion as CFO Sarah Friar signals the company is eyeing a potential IPO later in 2026, cementing its position as the world's most valuable AI startup.

Palo Alto-based Rhoda AI secured $450 million in Series A funding led by Premji Invest, reaching a $1.7 billion valuation, to develop foundational robotics models trained on publicly available internet videos using its 'Direct Video Action' approach—aiming to give robots the generalization ability that teleoperation alone cannot provide.

AMI Labs, the Paris-based AI startup co-founded by Turing Award winner Yann LeCun after he left Meta, has raised $1.03 billion at a $3.5 billion pre-money valuation to develop world models—AI systems that learn from physical reality rather than language alone.

Global venture capital investment hit a record $189 billion in February 2026, with AI companies OpenAI, Anthropic, and Waymo accounting for the lion's share, according to a new Crunchbase report.

As OpenAI nears a $100 billion funding round and Anthropic closes a $30 billion raise, at least twelve direct OpenAI investors — including Founders Fund, Sequoia, Iconiq, and BlackRock — have also backed Anthropic, shattering a longstanding venture capital conflict-of-interest norm.

AI pioneer Fei-Fei Li's World Labs raises $1 billion from Nvidia, AMD, and Autodesk to develop spatial intelligence models that can perceive and interact with the 3D world.

Moonshot AI targets $10 billion valuation backed by Alibaba and Tencent, just weeks after raising $500 million at $4.3 billion valuation with Kimi chatbot.

Anthropic leads with $30 billion Series G at $380 billion valuation as US AI startups secure massive funding rounds, with three companies crossing $1 billion.

AI startup Anthropic closes $30B Series G funding led by GIC and Coatue, achieving $380B valuation with $14B run-rate revenue growing 10x annually.

Data analytics and AI company Databricks announces $7 billion in new investments including $5 billion equity and $2 billion debt, more than doubling its valuation to $134 billion in 13 months.

AI video generation startup Runway secures $315 million in Series E funding led by General Atlantic, nearly doubling its valuation to $5.3 billion as it shifts focus to developing advanced world models.

AI startup Anthropic raises double its initial target with $20B round led by Nvidia and Microsoft, valuing the company at $350 billion amid fierce competition.

Gather AI secures $40M led by Keith Block's Smith Point Capital for AI-powered warehouse drones using Bayesian curiosity techniques.

Fundamental raises $255M for Nexus, a Large Tabular Model that brings AI foundation model capabilities to enterprise structured data.

Former Cohere exec Sara Hooker raises $50M for Adaption Labs to build smaller, smarter AI models using gradient-free learning and adaptive intelligence.

Major AI funding wave sees Waabi secure $1B for autonomous trucking, Decagon triple to $4.5B valuation, and PaleBlueDot AI reach unicorn status at $1B+.

Autonomous vehicle startup Waabi secures $1 billion funding with $750M Series C and $250M from Uber to deploy 25,000+ robotaxis on the ride-hailing platform.

Recursive AI, a new startup from famed researcher Richard Socher, is in discussions for a funding round that would value the company at $4 billion. The lab aims to build superintelligent AI that can improve itself autonomously.